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The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country’s biggest cities. In many places the concentration is so dense that states are spending in excess of a million dollars a year to incarcerate the residents of single city blocks. When these people are released and reenter their communities, roughly forty percent do not stay more than three years before they are reincarcerated.

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Million Dollar Blocks (via minorjive)

Sawickipedia: Probably my favorite season of the wire was the one where the police major created in legalized drug zone to reduce violence and unnecessary arrests. A brilliant fantasy still but one I wish we would look more into especially now that our drug laws have turned an entire country into a drug ghetto.