Overcrowded Prisons and The War on Drugs

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Is this the answer to the problem of drugs though? While there are those that tend to believe incarceration is a great tool to stop drug use, there are those seeing that drug use while incarcerated is in full swing. Incarceration is apparently not the answer...
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And, although there are lots of proposed solutions, as of yet there are no viable solutions. Proposed Solutions to Overcrowded Prisons Almost every person in the United States has their own solution to the problem of drugs, but whether any of them are viable or not is the problem...
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Sex, Drugs, Prisons And Hiv Extremely illicit behavior by inmates has contributed to a steady increase of existing AIDS cases within the prison population. Prisoners engage in drug related as well as high-risk sexual behaviors that could lead to the transmission of HIV while incarcerated and later released...	2 / 461
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Prison System The penitentiary rivalry has cause a lot of changes within our American prison system. The rivalry implemented design changes every so often which led to better prison population and control of the inmates within them, because every state wanted the best prison system...	3 / 679
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