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There hasn't been a prison boom in this country and it's coincided with the boom of looking to big state colleges as revenue producers, particular in revenue producing sports as an answer for budget woes. i remember the governor from michigan said that the auto industry in the u.s. has become a health care provider where people happen to make cars. a lot of these big institutions have become football programs where people happen to go to class in between saturday games. >> yeah. >> victoria? >> i want to talk about the culture of big sports at a more microlevel, which is i have been lucky to n...

Criminals, we shifted public policy in such a way it's easier to get incarcerated. >> wasn't that done out of noble causes to begin with with the population growth and the fact that crimes in this day and age are expanding to different fronts people hadn't considered then including technology crimes. does it make a difference in how we interpret these numbers? >> most people aren't in jail for things like technology crimes or other white collar crimes. the prison boom comes from the war on drugs which gains begins in mid-80s. four out of five people who are incarcerated for drugs are not deale...