USA has the highest prison population rate in the world: 743 per 100,000 of the national population which is now higher than five times the overall world rate.

We lead the world in both categories not only do we have the largest prison population on the planet with 2.2 Million people incarcerated but we also lock up the highest percentage of people in the world with 743 per 100,000.

By the 1990's, the U.S. was opening on average one new prison or jail every week. Today, the United States has the largest prison population in the world and the highest incarceration rate in the world. It took America 160 years to incarcerate its first million people, but just twelve years to incarcerate the second million.
Justice Policy Institute

"I think the Drug War has been arguably the single most devastating, dysfunctional, harmful social policy since slavery."

--Retired Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)

Our 2.2 Million prison population equals that of the entire populations of the states of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, and Alaska combined.

CIA drug trafficking

Schaffer Library of Drug Policy

It's quite obvious that we no longer live in the land of the free. There has already been 719,004 People Arrested for Drug Law Offenses so far this year with 358,030 of them being Marijuana arrests alone.

The War on Drugs is clearly a racist policy : Innocent African American Drug War Victim held hostage by the state of Mississippi.

Corrupt DEA Agents in Colombia