This Blog analyzes current drug policies and related prison realities.

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The continued imprisonment of non-violent drug offenders is an important issue to take action on because the victims of this policy have lost their rights and cannot take action as a free person. These laws are hard to change because the mulitudes of people who oppose them are often trying to fly under the radar, are imprisoned, are an oppressed population, or have lost their voting rights.

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Sunday, November 8, 2009

33 STATE PRISONS 170,000 PRISONERS IN CA

When I heard the statistics at the weekend sociology class I took on the Industrial Prison Complex, I started to doodle in order to better conceptualize the numbers. I'm a visual learner.


IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Each square is 1,000 inmates.

Each polygon is a prison.

Red blocks represent all of the non-violent drug offenders, around a third of inmates.


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