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The Drug War: A War on Women and Their Families

Jasmine Tyler, Women Make News. April 5, 2010.

Since 1977, the rate of female imprisonment has increased by nearly 800% and is still rising -- much of it attributable to the war on drugs.

America's Gulag Just Keeps Growing

Ethan Nadelmann, AlterNet. April 25, 2008.

The U.S. dwarfs the rest of the world when it comes to locking up its citizens, due in large part to madness of our incarceration policies.

America Has Become Incarceration Nation

Marc Mauer, TomPaine.com. December 22, 2006.

The United States has now become the world leader in its rate of incarceration, locking up its citizens at 5-8 times the rate of other industrialized nations.

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