At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt

Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by pydry on Saturday August 27, 2022 @03:30PM (#32622285)

If you assume that the original intent was to find the most socially acceptable way to criminalize minorities and "social undesirables" (e.g. hippies) and go all in on it, it makes a lot more sense.

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by zozbot234 on Saturday August 27, 2022 @03:39PM (#32622381)

You might assume that, but it would be a questionable assumption. Opium was banned in China (where is was used by ordinary denizens of that country, not minorities) well before the West followed suit.

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by standardUser on Saturday August 27, 2022 @03:54PM (#32622550)

Assumptions aren't needed as there is a well-documented history of the US using drug laws to attack certain minority groups. That's not the end all, be all of drug laws (in my opinion) but it is an important part of the history of drug prohibition.

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