Slight Increase In Number Of White People Going To Jail For Drugs!

Meth epidemic whitens America’s prisons!

Choire Sicha
The Awl
1 min readApr 14, 2009

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In a new survey of state prisons, the number of black people sent up-river for drug offenses is shrinking, for the first time in 20 years-and also the number of white people behind bars for drugs is growing. And still! No one really wants to mention that, despite this trend, in the time period studied (1999 to 2005), courts still put away on drug charges 41,000 more black people than white people.

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