{"id":141431,"date":"2013-09-04T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=141431"},"modified":"2013-12-09T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:45:57","slug":"nonviolent-prison-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/political-ironing\/09\/04\/nonviolent-prison-inmates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nonviolent Inmates Overfilling Our Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/federal-prison-capacity1.jpg\" alt=\"Federal Prison Capacity\" width=\"480\" height=\"669\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-141412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/federal-prison-capacity1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/federal-prison-capacity1-143x200.jpg 143w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/federal-prison-capacity1-430x600.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Add to this the fact that many cops are effectively incentivized to make as many arrests as possible a month&#8211;and it&#8217;s a lot easier to handcuff a man for nonviolent drug crimes than it is to crack down on violent, life-ending ones&#8211;and you&#8217;ve got one bitter and bottomless cocktail that disproportionately impacts minorities and the poor. Drug abuse is a symptom of a larger set of problems&#8211;namely poverty and systemic segregation&#8211;not the cause.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn about the failed (or pending how much money and DC-influence you desire, &#8220;successful&#8221;) drug war, be sure to watch Eugene Jarecki&#8217;s &#8220;The House I Live In&#8221;. Check out the trailer below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a0atL1HSwi8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add to this the fact that many cops are effectively incentivized to make as many arrests as possible a month&#8211;and it&#8217;s a lot easier to handcuff a man for nonviolent drug crimes than it is to crack down on violent, life-ending ones&#8211;and you&#8217;ve got one bitter and bottomless cocktail that disproportionately impacts minorities and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":141434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,260],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Nonviolent Inmates Overfilling Our Prisons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Want your tax dollars to stop being spent on housing for those society deems &#039;useless&#039;? 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