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Re:The War on Drugs and Prison Growth: Limited importance an... by simplulo on Thursday August 20, 2015 @11:43AM (#10092551)
Three quarters of US murder victims are male, and more than half are black. The same goes for US murderers, to which we can add that more than half are under 30, and more than half use handguns (not an inexpensive tool). I suspect that the circumstances more often involve drug gangs than domestic violence. It seems unlikely to me that Drug Prohibition could be such a big factor in murder but not in other crime or incarceration.
Re:The War on Drugs and Prison Growth: Limited importance an... by tptacek on Thursday August 20, 2015 @11:59AM (#10092684)
I wasn't providing a narrative, I was citing statistics you can get from prisons.