[PghBaldy]

"Three out of four people in prison are black or brown for nonviolent drug use."

I do not believe that they are all in for non-violent drug use, unless it was like Al Capone and taxes - they charged em with more, but that is what it took to get a conviction.

[PghBaldy]

If Paul is going to lie, at least stick to the current leftist lie. Don't embellish their lies. I also don't believe that white kids are more likely to abuse drugs than blacks.

(2013) "More than half of federal prisoners are incarcerated for drug crimes in 2010, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and that number has only just dipped below 50 percent in 2011. Despite more relaxed attitudes among the public at large toward non-violent offenses like marijuana use, the number of people in federal prison for drug offenses spiked from 74,276 in 2000 to 97,472 in 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The punishment falls disproportionately on people of color. Blacks make up 50 percent of the state and local prisoners incarcerated for drug crimes. Black kids are 10 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes than white ones -- even though white kids are more likely to abuse drugs."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/drug-war-mass-incarceration_n_3034310.html