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What Happened to the Crack Epidemic?
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:25:09
Publish Date: 2017-04-18 17:47:28
Description: Why are crack users given such long, punishing sentences? It’s because of political gamesmanship around crime in the ’80s. In the new Audible series 100:1 The Crack Legacy, journalist Christopher Johnson looks at how inner-city drug panics led to today’s mass-incarceration crisis. 

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