Flagpole Magazine, p. 31 (December 20, 2006).

Abstract

From 1995 to 2003, the most recent year for which we have statistics, sentenced drug offenders accounted for 49% of the growth in the number of inmates in federal prisons. In 2003, 55% of all federal prison inmates (87,000 of 158,000) were sentenced for drug offenses.

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