Drug Policy
Analysis of drug policy and its effects on the prison system
- 1 in 5 incarcerated people is locked up for a drug offense (Created: 2023)
- Some states have largely ended the War on Drugs. Other states, not so much (Created: 2023)
- Underlying problems: Past drug use and substance use disorders are extremely common among people in state prisons (Created: 2022)
- Police make over 1 million drug arrests each year (Created: 2022)
- Women's drug arrests have continued to grow even as men's returned to early 1990s levels (Created: 2020)
- People in jail are eight times more likely to have a substance use disorder (Created: 2019)
- Incarceration for drug offense in different parts of the justice system (Created: 2018)
- Some states have largely ended the War on Drugs. Other states, not so much. (Created: 2017)
- Who is more likely to go to prison for a drug offense: People in urban, or in rural Senate districts? (2010) (Created: 2010)
- Who is more likely to go to prison for a drug offense: People in urban New York City or in Senator Volker's rural district? (Created: 2005)
- Growth in the New York State prison and drug prisoner populations (Created: 2002)
Events
- November 13-15, 2024:
Members of our Research and Advocacy teams will be attending the American Society of Criminology annual meeting in San Francisco from November 13 through the 15th. Please reach out if you’d like to set up a meeting. - November 14-16, 2024:
Members of our Research and Advocacy teams will be attending a convening at the University of Texas in Austin from November 14 through the 16th. Please reach out if you’d like to set up a meeting.
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