Final

The ACLU reported that Mississippi is the second highest in prison incarceration rates in the nation just under Louisiana. Between 1997 to 2007 the ACLU reported 155 percent rise in the states prison population. According to the United States Burea of Justistic Statistics  the national prison population went from roughly 250,000 to 2.5 Million. Also, only 7 percent of federal prison inmates are violent offenders and 52 percent of state prisoners are violent offenders. The rise of the state's prison population is in part to due with the national "War on Drugs." Federal agencies work together with state agencies in an attempt to stop the flow of drugs. With this strong fight comes heavy sentences for these offenders, mostly non- violent. In 1995 Mississippi pushed it's"truth-in-sentencing" act, which requires inmates to serve 85 percent of their time regardless to crime. This mentality is of police state industry, in my opinion with the struggle of individuals to fight their non-rehabilitation punishment, as prison has claimed to be a place for, and when released having little social acceptance. I hope lawmakers and activist to perform true unity as a people can adapt the message of the ACLU of humanity.