indiscretion. Essentially the “pipeline” serves as a preemptive action deemed necessary to confront the danger perpetually posed by African-Americans to civilized society. In the New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander discusses the racial underpinnings of the prison industrial complex. Alexander asserts that “more African-American adults are under correctional control toady-in prison or jail, on probation or parole-than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.” (Alexander, 175) This startling reality is what leads the author to analogize the mass incarceration of African-Americans as the new slave plantation. One of the main points of contention for Alexander is the War on Drugs. For Alexander, the War of Drugs serves