The Prison Boom (http://www.gothamgazette.com/iotw/prisons/abramsky.shtml)

This makes reference to the Rockerfeller Drug Laws and the Prison "boom" in New York State from The Gotham Gazette

"The law may thus be providing theprison system with its next generation of residents..." YES. Sad thing is if you read the Attica Commission Report from the early 70s, we knew a lot of this then too. makes you wonder what it will take...