Incarceration in the United States

praises of Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, which has garnered a huge following and spawned an allegedly new designation for racial inequity in the United States. However, while I do agree with Alexander that there is a humongous issue with mass incarceration in the United States, I believe that Alexander’s work promotes a false understanding of mass incarceration in the United States. My objection to the Jim Crow analogy is based on…

characterizes mass incarceration as the steady increase in U.S inmates, for increasing reasons coupled with increased sentences. The American Civil Liberties Union’s (2016) article, “What’s at Stake” juxtaposes America’s most famous theme, “Home of the Free” to the current state of mass incarceration experienced in the African American community. African Americans only comprise 13% of the United States population, yet they account for 40% of the prison population (United States Census, 2015).…

would not think that a racial caste system exists in the United States, especially after Barack Obama was elected as a president. However, having a few successful African Americans doesn’t necessarily mean racism is abolished. During the last thirty years, United States’ incarceration rates have soared while other countries’ incarceration rates remained the same or decreased. Not only that, the incarcerated population in the United States is racially disproportionate; about 90% of the prisoners…

colored person in the United States, it is inflexible being in a country full of all races who have hatred and issues with blacks. Slavery, racism, racial profiling, segregation and police brutality are all examples connecting to the hatred people has and still have on people of color. In recent years, the United States became a mess with the amount violence, mass incarceration and brutality on people of color, leading so many people to prison. Currently mass incarceration rates has shown…

In the United States, the American criminal justice system holds more than 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 942 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails. In recent studies, it is shown that the United States has 25% of the world’s population in prison. The change in sentencing law and policy explains a 500% increase in incarceration over the last forty years. The drastic increase resulted in prison overcrowding causing the expansion of the prison system.…

Introduction As we know the United States has a major prison problem, the United States accounts for only 5% of the world’s population but responsible for over 20% of the world’s prison population (Mass Incarceration in the USA, 2015). Since the 1980’s incarceration rates have tripled since the tough on crime campaign (Wyler, 2014). One out every 100 is a person behind bars, the United States has more prisons than colleges. This should tell us something how are prisons more important than…

The use of incarceration stayed pretty constant from the mid 1920’s through the mid 1970’s. Then, from the mid 1970’s up to 2008, the incarceration rate increased every year. The biggest incarceration trend was from 1980 to 2009 when the state and federal rates increased fourfold (Bohm & Haley, 2011). The biggest characteristic of the incarceration population is that 9 out of 10 inmates in prison are males. The majority of the inmates did not graduate high school or have their GED, not…

The mass incarceration of minority and impoverished communities around the globe, but most specifically in the U.S. is the subtle, yet active form of racism that we use today to discriminate, separate, and hinder the opportunities of those who become trapped behind bars. The incarceration system around the globe has a deep history that differs from country to country, some being more violent and unfair, like that of Latin America, to others being more successful in treating prisoners like human…

The Impacts of Societal Stereotypes and Societal Exclusion on Minority Populations The rise in incarceration rates within the United States is alarming. However, more alarming and concerning is the continual rise of incarceration rates among minority groups. This rise in incarceration has continued to rise despite the decreases in crime, and numerous measures put in place to address problematic issues associated with crime and drug use. Campbell, Michael C., Matt Vogel, & Joshua Williams. (2015)…

Mass Incarceration Mass incarceration is very unique problem to the United States that has been around for several years and seems to continue to grow by the years. In the book Mass Incarceration on Trial it is stated that, “The term mass incarceration was first used by specialists in the field of punishment and society to describe the tremendous changes in the scale of incarceration that began in the late 1970s…” (Simon 3). The fact that this term has been getting attention for almost forty…