Former Prosecutor and Corrections Superintendent Call for an End to War on Drugs, Institutionalized Racism October 26, 2012 Tron Nick From [HERE] White men, Jim Gierach a former Assistant State’s Attorney of Cook County, Illinois and Richard Van Wickler superintendent for the Cheshire County, New Hampshire Department of Corrections say the war on drugs is a failure and call for legalization of drugs. 72% of all people who use drugs are white, 13% are Black yet 60% of all prisoners who are incarcerated on drug convictions are Black.