NAACP President: American Drug War’s Toll on Liberty Greater Than Apartheid

Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP, said Tuesday “For about 40 years, we’ve decided that [prison] is how we solve almost every problem, whether it’s homelessness or drug addiction, we’ve gotten to a place where black men in this country are three times more likely to be incarcerated than black men in South Africa during apartheid when they were the world’s leading [jailer].”