For Profit Prisons and the War on Drugs
July 10, 2013 by Admin
Filed under Addiction, Drug Related Crimes, Drugs in 2012, For Profit Prisons, Substance Abuse, War on Drugs
The U.S. federal government spent over $15 billion dollars in 2010 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $500 per second. Arrests for drug law violations this year are expected to exceed the 1,663,582 arrests of 2009. Law enforcement made more arrests for drug abuse violations (an estimated 1.6 million arrests, or […]