Mass Incarceration as the New Jim Crow
... Submitted by: Professional Staff Congress Whereas, as Michelle Alexander has shown in her 2011 book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, the explosion in the U.S. prison population between 1980 and 2006, from 350,000 to 2.3 million, reflects changes in laws and policie ...
... Submitted by: Professional Staff Congress Whereas, as Michelle Alexander has shown in her 2011 book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, the explosion in the U.S. prison population between 1980 and 2006, from 350,000 to 2.3 million, reflects changes in laws and policie ...
Study Guide for The New Jim Crow
... right to health care, and the right to food. In my vision, we as a nation finally come to embrace basic civil and human rights for all people, no matter who they are or what they have done. This movement carries with it a vision of a society in which we value education over incarceration; jobs over ...
... right to health care, and the right to food. In my vision, we as a nation finally come to embrace basic civil and human rights for all people, no matter who they are or what they have done. This movement carries with it a vision of a society in which we value education over incarceration; jobs over ...
Study Guide - The Real Cost of Prisons Project
... and frisk impacts communities of color. www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ByAn A description of the Old Jim Crow, 73 minutes Private prisons are present in the majority of states in the U.S. They have had an impact on mass incarceration that is important for the public to understand. www.globalsearch.ca/i ...
... and frisk impacts communities of color. www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ByAn A description of the Old Jim Crow, 73 minutes Private prisons are present in the majority of states in the U.S. They have had an impact on mass incarceration that is important for the public to understand. www.globalsearch.ca/i ...
GA-1323 (Item for Reflection and Research) INCARCERATION
... One-third of African American male high school dropouts under age 40 are currently behind bars; Among all African American men born since the mid-1960s, more than 20 percent will go to prison, nearly twice the number that will graduate college; This extraordinary pattern of penal confinement has bee ...
... One-third of African American male high school dropouts under age 40 are currently behind bars; Among all African American men born since the mid-1960s, more than 20 percent will go to prison, nearly twice the number that will graduate college; This extraordinary pattern of penal confinement has bee ...
The Rise of Segregation
... enforcing discrimination Civil Rights Act of 1875 – the Supreme Court did not pass, allowed no discrimination based upon race to be allowed Lynching- execution without proper court proceedings Over 190 by each mob annually from 1890-1899 ...
... enforcing discrimination Civil Rights Act of 1875 – the Supreme Court did not pass, allowed no discrimination based upon race to be allowed Lynching- execution without proper court proceedings Over 190 by each mob annually from 1890-1899 ...
, 850-644-7365 By Julie Mestre, August 2011, Volume 10 Issue 3
... Research explaining mass incarceration in the United States has routinely examined factors at the national level. However, several researchers featured in this issue explore mass incarceration in a novel way—by assessing the impact policies at state and local levels have on the incarceration rate. M ...
... Research explaining mass incarceration in the United States has routinely examined factors at the national level. However, several researchers featured in this issue explore mass incarceration in a novel way—by assessing the impact policies at state and local levels have on the incarceration rate. M ...
Mass Incarceration
... Appears that economic expansion over the 1990s helped to reduce economic wellbeing gaps but after factoring in prison populations, there seems to be little effect ...
... Appears that economic expansion over the 1990s helped to reduce economic wellbeing gaps but after factoring in prison populations, there seems to be little effect ...
Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control
... Competing images of the poor as “deserving” and “undeserving” became central components of the debate. Ultimately, the racialized nature of this imagery became a crucial resource for conservatives, who succeeded in using law and order rhetoric in their effort to mobilize the resentment of white work ...
... Competing images of the poor as “deserving” and “undeserving” became central components of the debate. Ultimately, the racialized nature of this imagery became a crucial resource for conservatives, who succeeded in using law and order rhetoric in their effort to mobilize the resentment of white work ...
Structural Discrimination Against People of African Descent
... rates of criminal behavior by people of African descent. While this cannot be entirely excluded as a contributing factor, it has been convincingly shown that this alone cannot explain the disparity. Many studies have shown that, even when Black people and others engage in criminal behavior at simila ...
... rates of criminal behavior by people of African descent. While this cannot be entirely excluded as a contributing factor, it has been convincingly shown that this alone cannot explain the disparity. Many studies have shown that, even when Black people and others engage in criminal behavior at simila ...
civil rights
... • After the Civil War, African Americans routinely faced discrimination, or unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group. ...
... • After the Civil War, African Americans routinely faced discrimination, or unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group. ...
Document
... offenders in state prisons involved non-violent or drug offenses. Prisons are housing many of the nation’s mentally ill. The number of mentally ill in prison is nearly five times the number in inpatient mental hospitals. Large numbers of mentally ill inmates, as well as inmates with HIV, tuberculosi ...
... offenders in state prisons involved non-violent or drug offenses. Prisons are housing many of the nation’s mentally ill. The number of mentally ill in prison is nearly five times the number in inpatient mental hospitals. Large numbers of mentally ill inmates, as well as inmates with HIV, tuberculosi ...
Barred from Voting - University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
... Civil and Political Rights, which the United States ratified in 1992, declares that “To vote and to be elected at genuine periodic elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret ballot, guaranteeing the free expression of the will of the electors.” While the U ...
... Civil and Political Rights, which the United States ratified in 1992, declares that “To vote and to be elected at genuine periodic elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret ballot, guaranteeing the free expression of the will of the electors.” While the U ...
Dealing with Disparity in Federal Court
... Sentences should punish, deter, incapacitate, and rehabilitate Overlay of Mandatory Minimums Individualized sentencing should avoid “unwarranted disparity” ...
... Sentences should punish, deter, incapacitate, and rehabilitate Overlay of Mandatory Minimums Individualized sentencing should avoid “unwarranted disparity” ...
1. Constitutionality
... federal registration of African-American voters in areas that had less than 50% of ...
... federal registration of African-American voters in areas that had less than 50% of ...
No More Shame! Defeating the New Jim Crow with
... kinds has been an answer to progress made by people of color, and it has been consistently excused by depictions of these groups as threats. Even when successful, marginalized groups are cast in a shameful light to discourage them from making public demands, and black-authored lynching plays evince ...
... kinds has been an answer to progress made by people of color, and it has been consistently excused by depictions of these groups as threats. Even when successful, marginalized groups are cast in a shameful light to discourage them from making public demands, and black-authored lynching plays evince ...
HCC Chapter Twelve PP
... • Average prison sentence in Texas in 19.3 years. It is hard for folks who have been in their for so long to re-adjust into society. • No family ...
... • Average prison sentence in Texas in 19.3 years. It is hard for folks who have been in their for so long to re-adjust into society. • No family ...
Comment on: incarceration,” by Steven Raphael
... mandatory treatment, parole, or “drug courts” instead of mandatory incarceration for small-time, non-violent drug offenders, who account for a huge share of the growth in prison population. Some states are reducing sentences for such drug offenders and other low-level felons still sent to prison, or ...
... mandatory treatment, parole, or “drug courts” instead of mandatory incarceration for small-time, non-violent drug offenders, who account for a huge share of the growth in prison population. Some states are reducing sentences for such drug offenders and other low-level felons still sent to prison, or ...
Mass Incarceration Debates Media List Debatable Issue Is mass
... which it wanted explicitly not to deem illegal. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/10/how-we-misunderstand-mass-incarceration Mass incarceration is not purely a product of the Drug War or of racism against black people. Rather, it is a function of a conservative shift in the U.S. against viol ...
... which it wanted explicitly not to deem illegal. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/10/how-we-misunderstand-mass-incarceration Mass incarceration is not purely a product of the Drug War or of racism against black people. Rather, it is a function of a conservative shift in the U.S. against viol ...
Gender & Criminal Justice
... imprisoned for street drug offenses. Control rate of young black men is mirrored by the control rate of young black women. Policy issue: • Police strategies in waging war on drugs focuses on street drug use and low-level operators • Mandatory-minimum sentencing ignores this reality ...
... imprisoned for street drug offenses. Control rate of young black men is mirrored by the control rate of young black women. Policy issue: • Police strategies in waging war on drugs focuses on street drug use and low-level operators • Mandatory-minimum sentencing ignores this reality ...
Ch. 16 Sect 2 NOTESx
... A: ______________________________________________________________________________________ Q: What approach did the NAACP take toward ending discrimination? A: _____________________________________________________________________________________ _______ ______________ • first African American to re ...
... A: ______________________________________________________________________________________ Q: What approach did the NAACP take toward ending discrimination? A: _____________________________________________________________________________________ _______ ______________ • first African American to re ...
The Science of Downsizing Prisons – What
... The length of a person’s incarceration is based on a state’s sentencing and parole structures. States can be separated into two basic categories of determinate (fixed terms) and indeterminate (a sentence range with parole eligibility) sentencing structures. For states with determinate sentencing str ...
... The length of a person’s incarceration is based on a state’s sentencing and parole structures. States can be separated into two basic categories of determinate (fixed terms) and indeterminate (a sentence range with parole eligibility) sentencing structures. For states with determinate sentencing str ...
THINKING ABOUT CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM By Daniel T
... 2.3 million Americans, or .72% of the population, are in prison or jail compared to 1970, when only 326,000 Americans, or .16% of the population incarcerated ---------------1 in 87 White men are currently incarcerated 1 in 36 Latino men are currently incarcerated 1 in 12 African American men are cur ...
... 2.3 million Americans, or .72% of the population, are in prison or jail compared to 1970, when only 326,000 Americans, or .16% of the population incarcerated ---------------1 in 87 White men are currently incarcerated 1 in 36 Latino men are currently incarcerated 1 in 12 African American men are cur ...