Michelle Alexander Quotes:
Ocupation: Professor
Life: b. October 7, 1967
Birthday: October 7
The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison population and more than half of the increase in the state prison population between 1985 and 2000, the period of our prison system's most dramatic expansion.
source: Source: www.truth-out.org
topic: War, Prison Population, Two, Mass Incarceration, Prison System, War On Drugs
