The US now imprisons around 2.3 million people at any time, a substantial number of whom are poor people who are arrested for selling drugs to support their own addiction. As a result, the US has ended up with the world’s highest incarceration rate – a shocking 743 people per 100,000!
事实上，毒品战争造成大量贫穷少数族裔青年入狱。如今，美国时时刻刻都有约230万年轻人在蹲班房，其中相当数量是因贩卖毒品以解决自己的药瘾而被捕的穷人。结果，美国的入狱率为世界之最，平均每10万人中有令人咋舌的743人坐牢！