Chapter Reflection – Chapter Two – “The Prison-Industrial Complex”
Colorado College, Colorado Springs – May 5, 1997 In reading Chapter Two, it brought back memories of the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, it was a very sad moment in my young life at the time. My family had just moved to Washington, DC that summer from Decatur, Alabama. Furthermore, my whole family was shaken from that kind of violence against a Baptist in a Black community. My Mother was not surprise, because the city of Decatur was segregated, and the KKK often marched down Black community streets carrying their torches. Ms. Davis stated that “Birmingham, Alabama, was the most segregated city in the United States”, in my opinion Decatur was a close runner up. My Father was stop by a Decatur police officer, and the officer asked him out of the car, and then started to beat him with a Billy Club. My Father was on the ground fighting for his life, he then bit the police officer ear off. They arrested him and he was incarnated for 6 months. Prison was horrible, he had to work the chain gang fixing highway or whatever disgusting job they could find the inmate to do. Lastly, my Father …show more content…
Davis continue to open my eyes to how the world have changed to prison being a private business. Most people push people incarnated in the Super Prison Complexes out of their mind. Moreover, they have their own lives to deal with not people behind bars. But, an end must come to this practice of punishment without rehabilitation for all men and women that are serving their time. All states will have to start a “public conversations about punishment” by so over two million people are behind bars. Finally, they say we live in a democratic society, but it’s not because so many people are in prison, and being punished, and some are even on death row trapped with no future in sight. All the people in charge much see that job training and education is the keep to help inmates divorce
Colorado College, Colorado Springs – May 5, 1997 In reading Chapter Two, it brought back memories of the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, it was a very sad moment in my young life at the time. My family had just moved to Washington, DC that summer from Decatur, Alabama. Furthermore, my whole family was shaken from that kind of violence against a Baptist in a Black community. My Mother was not surprise, because the city of Decatur was segregated, and the KKK often marched down Black community streets carrying their torches. Ms. Davis stated that “Birmingham, Alabama, was the most segregated city in the United States”, in my opinion Decatur was a close runner up. My Father was stop by a Decatur police officer, and the officer asked him out of the car, and then started to beat him with a Billy Club. My Father was on the ground fighting for his life, he then bit the police officer ear off. They arrested him and he was incarnated for 6 months. Prison was horrible, he had to work the chain gang fixing highway or whatever disgusting job they could find the inmate to do. Lastly, my Father …show more content…
Davis continue to open my eyes to how the world have changed to prison being a private business. Most people push people incarnated in the Super Prison Complexes out of their mind. Moreover, they have their own lives to deal with not people behind bars. But, an end must come to this practice of punishment without rehabilitation for all men and women that are serving their time. All states will have to start a “public conversations about punishment” by so over two million people are behind bars. Finally, they say we live in a democratic society, but it’s not because so many people are in prison, and being punished, and some are even on death row trapped with no future in sight. All the people in charge much see that job training and education is the keep to help inmates divorce