Speaking as a Democrat, exactly what Mark said. Bill Clinton's presidency is notorious for soaring incarceration rates. Here's a research article addressing that truism, which however also notes that Black incarceration rates soared particularly under Reagan and Bush I:
https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepol...tons-policies/
There is also, of course, this famous "tough on crime" story from the 1992 Clinton campaign:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Ray_Rector
Rudy Giuliani was Mayor of New York, and made himself famous, from 1994 to 2001:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayora..._Rudy_Giuliani. This was more or less a national trend.
Cheers,
John