| One Chart Shows Just How Much the War on Drugs Impacts Overcrowded US Prisons Kathleen Miles - The Huffington Post | |
| go to original March 10, 2014 |
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America's prisons are dangerously overcrowded, and the war on drugs is mainly to blame.
Over 50 percent of inmates currently in federal prison are there for drug offenses, according to an infographic recently released by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (see chart below). That percentage has risen fairly consistently over decades, all the way from 16 percent in 1970.
The second-largest category, immigration-related crimes, accounts for 10.6 percent of inmates. This means that people convicted of two broad categories of nonviolent crimes - drugs and immigration - make up at least 60 percent of the U.S. prison population.
U.S. Prison Population As Of Jan. 25, 2014
Data is limited due to the availability of offense-specific information.
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