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Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee
Ronald Reagan's "tough on drugs" campaign and mandatory minimum sentencing.
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Except that only ~1/3 of the increase is apparently due to drug incarcerations. When you posted this, I immediately went to look up the "why" bit, and fully expected it to be drug enforcement, and was surprised that 2/3 of the (huge) increase is NOT drugs. I'm no fan of criminalizing drugs (the dems happily jumped on that band wagon as well), but it's not Reagan's fault (sorry to rain on your parade).
Never found the real reason.