Miscellaneous
Crack cocaine becomes the target of Reagan and Clinton's tough on crime politics. The 1986 Anti Drug Abuse Act is a quintessential example of how drug laws are ridden with racial coding and discriminatory targeting. Drug laws only get more serious after a wave of repeat offender cases are sensationalized by the media. This paves way for the notorious 1994 Three Strikes Law: a law that led to the life sentencing of nonviolent drug users and contributed greatly to the overcrowded prison problem. Visit whatthefmagazine.wixsite.com/umich/podcast to check out any of the documents we referenced in this episode.