Essay On Incarceration And Social Inequality

In modern U.S. history and in past U.S. history, there have been many events that occurred that has involved interactions between the authorities, minorities, and the criminal justice system. However, the interactions involving minorities and the american legal system have not always been equitable and credible. I support the statement that reveals that minorities face prejudice treatment in the american legal system.

There have been a series of academic journals and articles that support the accusation that there is discrimination lingering in the american legal system and or the criminal justice system. In one of the articles that I have read titled Incarceration & Social inequality by Becky Pettit, Bryan Sykes, and Bruce Western, made the statement that american prisons and jails have made a new group of social outcasts and oddballs that are bonded together because they share the same experience with incarceration, crime, poverty, racial minority, and low education. As an outcast group, those men and women in our penal institutions have little access to the social mobility that is more available to the mainstream. (Pettit) Even though our incarceration rates are high in general, it is higher for those who face social and economic inequality. For
She also describes overwhelming evidence demonstrating unjust and unequal treatment in the criminal justice system of african americans and, to a lesser extent, latinos as well. Most of this injustice occurs as a result of the America’s drug enforcement policies. (Choker). Those policies allowed the police to stop and frisk, which allowed courts to incarcerate, disproportionate numbers of African American men and