“Drug prohibition is the biggest failed policy in the history of the United States second only to slavery.”
Maybe that was not a surprising claim to hear at the Pasadena-Foothills ACLU chapter’s public forum held at Neighborhood Church on May 10th.
After all, the chapter was co-sponsor of Michelle Alexander’s appearance in March at the Pasadena Public Library where she reported, as detailed in her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Our Role in Incarceration Nation , that largely as an intentional consequence of the “war on drugs,” there are more African American men under correctional control now than were enslaved in 1850.
http://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/jim-crow-role-incarceration-nation
