Leseklick: Warum der Krieg gegen die Drogen nur zum Teil die hohe Inhaftierungsrate in den USA erklärt

Vox - Why you can’t blame mass incarceration on the war on drugs

“In reality, only about 16 percent of state prisoners are serving time on drug charges — and very few of them, perhaps only around 5 or 6 percent of that group, are both low level and nonviolent,” [criminal justice expert John Pfaff] writes [in his new book]. “At the same time, more than half of all people in state prisons have been convicted of a violent crime.”