[news] The New American Apartheid (Part II)

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There is now little doubt that there is a close correlation between the "war on 
drugs" (and on "gangs") and the growth of the prison industrial complex. 
 This "war" was officially launched by President Reagan in the mid-1980s 
when he promised that the police would attack the drug problem "with more 
ferocity than ever before."  What he did not say, however, was that the 
enforcement of the new drug laws "would focus almost exclusively on low-level 
dealers in minority neighborhoods."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/7/2/17201/73489