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In 1990, Congress passed a bill that included the hundred to one rule. This made it mandatory to assign a 10 year sentence to anyone caught with 50 grams of crack. The black incarceration rate in America exploded from about 600 per 100,000 people in 1970 to 1808,000 in 2000. An Associated Press review of federal and state incarceration data shows that between 1975 and 2019, the US prison population jumped from 240,593 to 1.43 million Americans among them about one in five were incarcerated with a drug offense listed as their most serious crime.