Levy-Pounds, Nekima, Can These Bones Live? A Look at the Impacts of the War on Drugs on Poor African-American Children and Families (2009). Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal, Forthcoming; University of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-30. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1519089
"It is no secret that there is currently an incarceration crisis in America. A Pew Report issued in February of 2008 [See, One in 100] proved one of our worst fears, as the United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. In fact, according to the report, one in every one hundred adult Americans is presently incarcerated. One has to look no further than the last twenty years to identify the source of the boom in our nation’s prison population: Namely, the war on drugs..."
