Virtually all the growth of the federal inmate population since 1988 has resulted from the addition of drug offenders, yet drug usage hasn’t budged. If the War on Drugs marches on at its present pace, the prison population will overtake the total U.S. population in the 2080s.
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Robert Higgs is Retired Senior Fellow in Political Economy, Founding Editor and former Editor at Large of The Independent Review.
| Other Independent Review articles by Robert Higgs | ||
| Fall 2019 | Pressure-Release Valves in Participatory Fascism | |
| Winter 2018/19 | Two Worlds: Politics and Everything Else | |
| Fall 2018 | Against the Whole Concept and Construction of the Balance of International Payments | |
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