Twenty-one percent of violent felons in state prisons committed their crimes while under the influence of alcohol alone. If only he was finished, but no. The reason that drug use is still strong is because we are not putting people on jail. Well, having already covered most of this, let me expand on his theme of family. 146,000 American women are behind bars.
Women are the fastest growing and least violent segment of prison and jail populations.
U.S. Government Printing Office, p. 231, Table 42. More than two-thirds of all women in state prison have children. National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations. The Impact on Minorities. African American women accounted for over 50 percent of all injection-related AIDS cases among women in 1997, although the made up only 12 percent of the female population.