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- [Woman] There's tens of millions of dollars going
into expanding the prison system
and that is when we really begin to see the explosion
of prison populations in the US.
- Incarceration rates take off under Clinton.
But then, about the same time 94,
people start to become concerned
that the people who were being arrested
for crack were almost exclusively black.
- Two-thirds of crack users were white
but between the passage
of the Anti-drug Abuse Act in 1988 and 1994,
the passage of Clinton's Crime Bill,
not a single white person was convicted
of a federal crack offense in Los Angeles.
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