3 Million People In Prison Analysis

I have been wanting to watch this documentary for a couple weeks now because everyone keeps saying how good it is and it really is. I learned several interesting things and there were things that I didn’t really agree to.
I found it odd that we have 5 % of the world’s population but 25 % of people are here in the United States in prison. In 1972 we went from 300,000 people in prison in the U.S to 2.3 million in Prison which means within the last 44 years around one million seven hundred thousand people have been or are still in jail. That’s a big number considering it’s only been 44 years. Because of that number we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. We are supposed to be the land of the free and supposedly the greatest country in the world but yet our prison
I’m not saying they should get away with it but the only person they are hurting and only if they aren’t drug dealers is themselves. If that person is by himself or herself and they are doing drugs and getting high then why should that person have to go to jail it seems like that person needs help. It would be so different if that person had kids and were neglecting them or was driving under the influence then yes they should go to jail. In the time Reagan was president which was for about 8 years the prison Population went from 513,900 in 1980 to 759,100 in 1985 to 1,179,200. Which means around the time he left the job 665,300 people went to jail during his War on Drugs campaign. Then came Clinton’s 1994 Crime bill where lots of money was used to build prisons to keep criminals off the streets and gave Police more advantages to arrest more people who they thought were big time drug dealers and gave the officers more range which people are kind of saying is why the officers we see today are like this