In the 1990s the city of Philadelphia was still suffering from the epidemic of crack cocaine, which had transformed Black and Hispanic neighbourhoods into derelict ruins.

But this did not stop the INS from admitting new residents into the United States of America; after all, one of every two Jamaicans emigrating to the US was more than likely to be arrested and convicted on drug related charges within their first twenty-four months in the country.

The epidemic which was designed to destroy lives and fuel a Prison for Profit program, brought a host of corrupt police officers, shady District Attorneys and Judges to partake. Being of Black or Hispanic ethnicity meant suitable commodities, a reality one Jamaican had to learn with the numbers 30 to 120.