Question 1
It is evident that the “War on Drugs” disproportionately affects the women and especially the women of color. The “war on drugs” greatly affects women and families who have been the victims of mandatory minimum sentences and criminalization of females addicted to drugs among other policies. Subsequently, the number of the women in federal prison due to the nonviolent drug offenses in noticeably increasing. Therefore, this illustrates that the “war on drugs” is in a way a war against women.
There are three main factors that have shown the association between the “war on drugs” and War on women.”
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