The New Jim Crow - Mass Incarceration 1. (615 hits)
There are more blacks in prison then slaves in slavery !
n the 1980s Communist Romania under the most brutal eastern european dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu locked up 71,000 of its own citizens or 1 in every 300. Today the USA, the world's oldest democracy jails 2.2 million or 1 in every 136 of it's own citizens, ie. 2.2 times the incarceration rate of a notorious police state. This does not make any sense unless we look at the racial aspects of the US justice system.
Legal Scholar Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
