The Caging Of America Analysis

It is heartbroken to look at a picture of a little boy locked up in a room with brick walls, a hard bed with a thin mattress on top, and a window on top of the wall or at least that’s how it appears the way the light is entering the room. It makes me think what if that were my son. That is the first image we look at when reading the informative article of the Caging of America. Mr. Gopnik the writer of the article presents us with the “six million people under correctional supervision in the United States - more than were in Stalin’s gulags” (1). He gives us a comparison between the Soviet prison and American prison. At first I did not know who Ivan Denisovich was until I did some research and read that it was a character from a novel written by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn the story about Soviet labor camps in the 1950s.
Furthermore, Mr. Gopnik continues by putting himself inside the American prison, stating that time does not exists like if it was never discovered. He also quotes the song Bob Dylan wrote about when George Jackson was shot by a prison guard in the San Quentin prison for attempting to escape. In addition, African-Americans are locked up more than compared to whites. As a society we can criticize African-Americans by stating that it is their fault for not having goals or dreams, their fault not to get educated and work hard to achieve a positive outcome, but it depends on their situation. For example, poverty plays an important role in African-American society and with no education or …show more content…
Another example would be incarcerating someone without a trial or being represented by a lawyer that does not care about the rights of the person. In the Fifth and Sixth Amendment of The Bill of Rights it states “guarantees specific rights when on trial” and the “right to be represented by an