Since the drug war started, the crime rate has not increased, but the drug conviction rate has. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 55% of federal prisoners and 21% of state-level prisoners are incarcerated on the basis of drug-related offenses. Corporations and other corporate entities that run prisons profit when the incarceration rate increases.

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