Drugs and Punishment | Wheeler on America

(4/5) Charles Wheeler looks at prison population growth and asks if penalties for drug offences are too harsh?

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Clip Info
  • Clip length: 49'32''
  • Broadcast year: 1996
Curriculum Connection
  • History | America | Modern USA | Protest, progress and radicalism
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  • Provider: BBC
  • Channel: BBC Two
  • Programme: Wheeler on America
  • Episode: Drugs and Punishment
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