White Inmates Are More in Jail Than Blacks

Rural, mostly white and politically conservative counties have continued to send more drug offenders to prison. While crack cocaine adiction was centred in cities, opiite and methediction are ravaging small communities like those in dearborn county where 97 % of the population is white. The extraordinarily high incarceration rate here, about one in ten adults is in prison, jail or probation, is driven less by crime and poverty than by a powerful prosecutor, hard lined judges and growing heroine epidemic. And surprise, surprise, since the opioid crisis began, our incredibly disfunctional, for profit health care system has not made it any easier for people to get treatment.