Prison Industry Expanding With War On Drugs

In the early 1970s, the prison population in the United States was small and was steadily falling relative to the size of the population. Experts imagined that in a few decades, the prison system as we know it could be successfully dismantled, but that began to change after President Nixon began the War on Drugs in 1971, resulting in a huge influx of convicts.

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/10/the-prison-system-runs-amok-expands-at.html