However, a man named William Randolph, a popular journalist in America around 1930, began to write articles about "lazy Mexican marijuana smokers raping women and children after smoking the drug" (brief). ... The U.S. has spent billions more holding non-violent drug offenders in prison. ... Prisons are also becoming overcrowded and expensive to run. ... There are an estimated 15,668 people presently incarcerated in federal prisons for marijuana offenses, comprising about 12.7% of the total federal prison population. ... Prison sentences for marijuana offence averages around 3.5 years. ...

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At the age of seven, Bobby got raped several times by a neighborhodd teenage boy who used to babysit him and his younger brothers and sisters. ... Patty`s son Junior, the third generation, got even involved into gangfights, guns and rape. The familiy lived a life in and out of prison. There were times when two or more family members were detained in the same prison. ... He acknoledges that he finds it difficult to negotiate life outside prison- (Dash, 132). ...

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In 1980, there were almost twice as may violent offenders in federal prisons as drug offenders (Schlosser 91).5 Today there are far more people in federal prison for marijuana crimes than for violent crimes. More people are incarcerated in the nation's prisons for marijuana than manslaughter or rap (Schlosser 92).5 Attempts to reduce dangerous prison overcrowding have been disadvantaged by the nation's drug law. ... As a young man, he"d been convicted of a number of petty crimes none serious enough to warrant a prison warrant. ... He was convicted, fined $250,000, and sentence...

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Due to the war on drugs, State and Federal prisons can no longer afford to house violent criminals for appropriate amounts of time. ... Lamar Grey was arrested, tried, convicted, fined $25,000 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. While, Larry Singleton raped a teenage girl, mutilated her, chopped off her arms, and left her in the desert to die. He was arrested, tried, convicted, and received the maximum penalty of 14 years in prison - of which he only served 8( Nadelmann, "Thinking seriously about alternatives to the drug prohibition" 124) Economically, the production of drugs...

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The Offenders Under Treatment, Post Conviction Treatment, and Long-Term Cocaine Addiction programs treat offenders on probation, in prison, and on parole. ... In a recent interview, David Oldfield, Director of Planning and Research, provided a list of violent offenses: • 1st-degree Arson • 1st- and 2nd-degree Murder • 1st-degree robbery • Kidnapping • 1st-degree Assault • Forcible Rape • Forcible Sodomy (personal communication, June 16, 2003) To prevent first-time, non-violent offenders from being incarcerated and possibly defecting to a life o...

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And the attendant self-consciousness and diminished self-image throb through her bodily prison until the bladder can do nothing but explode in a parody of release (freedom)- (Bloom3 5) Another struggle Maya faces in Caged Bird occurs when she is only seven years old and is raped by her mother's boyfriend. ...

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An interviewee, Audrey Roberts 17, stated that she has seen rapes, homicides, and brutal beatings on the street. ... In our society crime control is almost always correlated with harsher punishments and longer prison terms. ...

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