Incarceration in the United States

Around 2 million people in the United States are incarcerated: the highest of any modern country, even more than the likes of communist China and Russia (Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Total). These surprising statistics are due in part to the drug war, which has only resulted in the increase of illicit drugs and the mass incarceration of American citizens. The action America takes may affect the future in ways that could damage families across this once great land in a very similar way…

1986 involved more serious punishments for those who sell crack cocaine compared to powder. Crack was more associated with blacks and powder more connected to rich white people. This not only falls into the category of oppression but also mass incarceration.…

public schooling, for some time. Disillusionment is tiresome and painful, like when the fourth wall is broken, all the wonder is lost. When wonder is lost and pain takes its place, the greatest challenge is to not be desensitized. So, I research the state of race relations often, I try to learn about the victims of racism, and, mostly, I try to discuss racism with people who are “colorblind” or unaware in my predominantly white upper class community as often as possible. During the past year,…

relations (CAIR), revealed a report that claimed 78 bills or amendments were created to decline or prohibit Islamic religious practice in the United States from 2011-2012. On the other hand, another poll, taken 2010…

The movie, “The House I Live In”, opened my mind to stuff that I never knew before that has been going around in the United States for decades. Before this video I always had my mind set that, everyone who was involved in selling or consuming drugs should be locked up for a lot of years. Also, that they are all criminals. However, this movie changed my view towards them. Something that they mentioned in the movie that had me thinking since is, that before when people first started using drugs…

Introduction Prison overcrowding is a major issue in the United States. It is an issue that is rapidly increasing daily. The goals of the criminal justice system are to prosecute, punish, and rehabilitate. Due to overcrowding it has become clear that the goals of this system are to punish, prosecute, incarcerate, and release. If the offender does not have the means to succeed and the tools necessary when reintegrated into society recidivism chances increase greatly causing a negative impact…

in state, local, or federal custody, with another 4.6 million on probation or parole. Internationally. The United States has 5% of the world’s…

Medical statistics for inmates in the United States view statistics from both state and federal correctional systems with a focus on the medical needs of the correctional population. The survey covers both male and female offenders from the age of 24 and younger to 45 and older aswell as a variety of races (Maruschak, 2005). The Survey of Medical Problems of Prisoners the medical problems that the survey focuses on are: ARTHRITIS, ASTHMA, CANCER,DIABETES, HEART PROBLEMS, HYPERTENSION, KIDNEY…

and more than half of them are incarcerated. It discuss on the racial injustice on African Americans and Hispanics being targeted as well as history and current day of imprisonment currently in the United States. These article explain more in depth how when slavery was abolished, that’s when incarceration punishment was more of a way for white supremacy to be in control. Also one of the articles spoke a lot on penal policies and how they came to be so strict and harsh. Punishments like the death…

and her findings regarding mass incarceration as the new form of the caste system—a system that has survived the test of time and continues to affect many black men in the United States but is now more imperceptible to the American public—the paper will first unravel and present the racial politics of America. Following Alexander’s findings, search studies presented by the National Football League and professors at Georgetown, George Washington, Emory, and Iowa State University, will reveal that…