Drug Policy
Analysis of drug policy and its effects on the prison system
- 1 in 5 incarcerated people is locked up for a drug offense (Created: 2023)
- Some states have largely ended the War on Drugs. Other states, not so much (Created: 2023)
- Underlying problems: Past drug use and substance use disorders are extremely common among people in state prisons (Created: 2022)
- Police make over 1 million drug arrests each year (Created: 2022)
- Women's drug arrests have continued to grow even as men's returned to early 1990s levels (Created: 2020)
- People in jail are eight times more likely to have a substance use disorder (Created: 2019)
- Incarceration for drug offense in different parts of the justice system (Created: 2018)
- Some states have largely ended the War on Drugs. Other states, not so much. (Created: 2017)
- Who is more likely to go to prison for a drug offense: People in urban, or in rural Senate districts? (2010) (Created: 2010)
- Who is more likely to go to prison for a drug offense: People in urban New York City or in Senator Volker's rural district? (Created: 2005)
- Growth in the New York State prison and drug prisoner populations (Created: 2002)
