Equality The United States spends over $80 billion on incarceration each year according to the American Civil Liberties Union. “It is morally repugnant and a national tragedy that we have privatized prisons all over America. In my view, corporations should not be allowed to make a profit by building more jails and keeping more Americans behind bars. We have got to end the private-for-private racket in America,” states Sen. Bernie Sanders. These private prison owners become wealthier and wealthier, but to every effect has a cause. Nowadays the cause of mass incarceration begins from the police. The police main goals should be to prevent problems, securing areas, and providing assistance. The fact is the racial disparities in prison, and the …show more content…
Those factors feel black Americans into the system disproportionately, even before a judge lays eyes on them.” In 2005 the Supreme Court gave more flexibility to judges when in sentencing the accusers, which then resulted to mass incarceration. On this prison reform was then clarify on 2007 stating judges had to calculate the sentencing according to their guidelines but they had the choice to follow or not. Whites and minorities would commit the same crime but in a mysterious way whites for the most part would get shorter sentences in prison or jail. The answer is simple the judges exercise their discretion to not follow guidelines and gave longer sentences to people of …show more content…
“In 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery, but there was a loophole. Prisoners were exempt. Since the passage of the amendment, prisons and businesses have been forcing inmates to work for slave wages, or sometimes no wages,” according to Madonna Gauding. Now companies are making a fortune due to they are saving on the labor costs. These capitalist are highly content how much money they are bringing to their companies. The United States lets corporations paid the inmates as low as twenty-five cents an hour. Beginning with BP the oil company used African Americans to clean up oils spills. One of the known fast food restaurants McDonald’s uses the inmates for plastic cutlery and specially to sew their uniforms. AT&T pays them $2 dollars a day to be telephone operators. The list goes on, those are just examples on how they use these “overcrowded” prisons and turn it into money. In result mass incarcerations was good for their
This paper was primarily researched online using freely available sources such as NC Live and ProQuest. The main purpose of this article is to shed a light on the mass incarceration of people in the United States of America. The United States has the greatest number of incarcerated individuals of any country on Earth. While the majority of these sentences are correct and just, a considerable number may actually be mistakes made by officers, the legal system, or the court. These slip-ups are often
Introduction Mass incarceration in the United States has been a very prominent and distinct feature of our criminal justice system. The rates of which this system imprisons is very unequal when compared to other countries in the world, as well as when compared to other races within the United States itself. Mass incarceration does alter the lives of those who are within its prison system, and also those who are related to those individuals whether it be through blood or bond. These effects can extend
Introduction Michelle Alexanders’ book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, explores the emergence of a new racial caste system in the United States, mass incarceration. She explores mass incarceration as a form of racial control that functions in contemporary society, even as it operates under the principle of colorblindness, which is a central theme within the book. Another central theme that Alexander discusses throughout the course of her book is the societal misconception
The American criminal justice system has long been plagued by issues of racial injustice and mass incarceration, deeply entrenched within its historical roots. Through literature and film, authors and filmmakers have sought to illuminate these systemic injustices, shedding light on the myriad factors contributing to the pervasive presence of mass incarceration, particularly among marginalized communities. Jesmyn Ward's novel "Sing, Unburied, Sing" and Ava DuVernay's documentary "The 13th" are potent
Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander introduces readers to the phenomenon of mass incarceration in the United States and challenges readers to view the crisis as the “ the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.” In the introduction, Alexander writes “what the book is intended to do and that is to stimulate much needed conversation about the role of the criminal justice system in creating and perpetuating racial hierarchy in the United States.” We come
The Land of the Free is the home of 25% of the total worldwide prisoners according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The incarceration rate in the United States started to increase exceptionally in the past 30 years as one of the measures against the proclaimed “Drug War” by United States President Richard Nixon. As a result, 756 in every 100,000 Americans are behind bars (Webb, 2009). The development of the punitive system, particularly prisons, has resulted in a progression of collateral problems
Mass Incarceration the New Jim Crow Written by Patricia Kelly in January 1, 2015, “Mass Incarceration” is an article from Public Health Nursing journal which argues that mass incarceration in the United States, as a result of the “War on Drugs” has greatly impacted the lives of people of color. Additionally, Robert DeFina and Lance Hannon; professors at Villanova University, who are actively engaged in matters pertaining to criminal and social justice, vindicate racial control in the article, “Impact
The unequal distribution of equality throughout the United States affects many aspects of society. This injustice is seen in many different forms such as the wage gap between genders, racial discrimination, homelessness and even incarceration based on color. One of the main causes to the extremely high incarceration rate in the United States is the mandatory minimums set in place in the federal legislation. “Mandatory minimum sentencing laws require binding prison terms of a particular length for
The topic that I have chosen to discuss is “Mass incarceration in the world past and present.” This topic is pretty relatable for most individuals, because of the amount of incarcerations over the past few decades taking individuals away from their families. This is one topic that I have never really looked into to find out the reasons behind mass incarceration. To most people this topic is not one that many may find interesting, however after researching the topic it is one that is interesting and
100,000 people, 716 people are in jail (Lee). This staggering amount makes The United States the country with the most population in prison. The US is not the most populated country, but has the most populated prison system. This is because America’s mass incarceration of its citizens. Mass incarceration costs the government money, splits up families, and is not even proven to work. While some may think mass incarceration helps keep America safe, the American government needs to take steps to reduce
The United States civilization rejects hangings, lynching, floggings and disemboweling, yet caging millions of people for decades at a time has been established as an acceptable humane sanction. America is home to about one-twentieth of the world’s population, yet we house a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Since the mid 1970s, the American prison population has boomed, multiplying sevenfold while the population has only increased by fifty percent. My research will illustrate that over the
Alternatives to mass incarceration Once upon a time, we could proudly to say that America is the land of freedom and opportunities. As the pledge of Allegiance stated, “[I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands,] one nation under God, Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” However, under the current criminal justice system, more and more people lose their liberty more than they deserved because of the crimes they have committed
The Effects of Mass Incarceration in the United States “Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skin, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.” (Lyndon Johnson). Whether said to be called mass incarceration, mass imprisonment or jail, this appearance attributes to the substantial increase in the number of incarcerated people in the United States. This abnormality concentrates on communities of color
University and clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the United States Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Subsequently, she was on the faculty of Sanford Law School serving as the Director of the Civil Rights Clinic before receiving a Soros Justice Fellowship and an appointment to the Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. Professor Alexander has litigated civil
According to the Oxford Index, “whether called mass incarceration, mass imprisonment, the prison boom, or hyper incarceration, this phenomenon refers to the current American experiment in incarceration, which is defined by comparatively and historically extreme rates of imprisonment and by the concentration of imprisonment among young, African American men living in neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage.” It should be noted that there is much ambiguity in the scholarly definition of the newly