1 in 5
August 9, 2022
According to a new report by the Prison Policy Initiative, “1 in 5 incarcerated people is locked up for a drug offense” and “374,000 are incarcerated for drug offenses on any given day.” And Americans sing that this is the land of the free?
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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