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One-eighth of all funding for the War on Drugs goes to pay for prisons.
Date: 1995
Drugs & alcohol
Prison Industrial Complex
This statistic pertains to federal funding only, and doesn't take into account the additional local and state funding provided through the War on Drugs budget line that also goes into prisons.
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