Summary Of The New Jim Crow

Before reading the preface my view of “tough on crime” drug polices was that if drug offenders are charged for a drug crime it is considered a misdemeanor. I thought when offenders are release from prison they were mandatory to attend rehabilitation program to receive appropriate drug treatments. However, the “tough on crime” polices resulted in the large increase of federal and state prison for mass incarceration of black American in the war on drugs. My perspective on drug enforcement changed due to reading the preface of “The New Jim Crow”. I did not realize that drug war in ghetto communities was not because of where the violent offenders are located or people uses drugs. The drug war was focused was the increase of drug arrests on black
Americans. People of color were changes for minor, non-violent drug offences and incarcerated in prisons. This is a new racial casted created a new Jim Crow system. Millions of people of color with criminal records with a felony are legally denied the rights to vote.