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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
It was never meant to curb drug use at all, it was all about money. It's not a coincidence that private for-profit prisons started appearing at the same time as the war on drugs ramped up. More people in jail, more money for the owners, more money funneled to the politicians. It also opened up a big revenue stream for the CIA when they got into the drug smuggling business
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I don't necessarily agree with that. I think it was started with good, albeit misguided, intentions. It's really during Reagan that it ramped up into ridiculousness. This is also when the private prisons first really started booming.
So, basically, #### Ronald Reagan.