Unfortunately, the statistics show a classist and racist system of justice in the United States, which deprives massively of freedom mainly to poor individuals, where the possibilities that someone is arrested, convicted and sentenced increase exponentially if that person in addition to being a poor person is black or Hispanic. The prison system is not only designed as a system of crime prevention and control, it operates as a system of racial control that obeys also to an economic model, in itself very profitable that under the facade of a valid social control found a powerful mechanism to support the separation of classes that has proved to be very profitable and that makes use of tools implemented in society that systematically will ensure
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In parallel, the penal system has come hardening by means of legislation that reduces the faculties of judges and of juries in the appreciation of the facts and of the right imposing disproportionate sentences for non-violent offenses that, in practice, especially affect the african-american population, which are also committed in a lower proportion inside white communities where are usually ignored. Therefore, those who assume that United States citizens live in a post-racial society, they lose sight of the structural nature of racism. Evidently, a black man in the White House does not compensate for the million blacks in the Big House, that is to say, in the …show more content…
The Prison-Industrial Complex becomes a billionaire business. The construction, maintenance, services, and operation of prisons, are highly profitable and, in addition, the corporations have a huge mass of labor that works for just pennies, where the employees are never absence, they do not even come late to the work, are not organized in trade unions, do not realize strikes, they do not receive benefits or pension and, they do not have the protest right, otherwise they will be send to solitary confinement. It guarantees all the requirements that any employer in a capitalist model would like to impose as working conditions. Thus, the domineering class uses the massive imprisonment as an instrument of social control of this population that otherwise is not interesting to the corporations. Prisons as total institutions have become a business in which the high profits potential is more important than the purpose of imprisonment population’s
In parallel, the penal system has come hardening by means of legislation that reduces the faculties of judges and of juries in the appreciation of the facts and of the right imposing disproportionate sentences for non-violent offenses that, in practice, especially affect the african-american population, which are also committed in a lower proportion inside white communities where are usually ignored. Therefore, those who assume that United States citizens live in a post-racial society, they lose sight of the structural nature of racism. Evidently, a black man in the White House does not compensate for the million blacks in the Big House, that is to say, in the …show more content…
The Prison-Industrial Complex becomes a billionaire business. The construction, maintenance, services, and operation of prisons, are highly profitable and, in addition, the corporations have a huge mass of labor that works for just pennies, where the employees are never absence, they do not even come late to the work, are not organized in trade unions, do not realize strikes, they do not receive benefits or pension and, they do not have the protest right, otherwise they will be send to solitary confinement. It guarantees all the requirements that any employer in a capitalist model would like to impose as working conditions. Thus, the domineering class uses the massive imprisonment as an instrument of social control of this population that otherwise is not interesting to the corporations. Prisons as total institutions have become a business in which the high profits potential is more important than the purpose of imprisonment population’s