Don’t forget the war on drugs

  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 days ago

    The deinstitutionalization and movement to prison was something that began long before Reagan. Really goes back to the end of ww2 and Kennedy. though reagan definitely accelerated it by a great deal by decreasing budgets substantially and increasing incarceration rates significantly

    Reagan was a monster though. What a great day it was when he died

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        14 days ago

        Yes, the massive fall of deinstitutionalization began in the 60s as indicated on my graph? And as I said it began long before him? I don’t understand what you are disagreeing with

        Even the incarceration rise started before him in the early 70s. He just is the one that turned this to a million with the war on drugs