From Slavery to Mass Incarceration: Necessary Extremes Of the supplementary readings provided‚ I found “From Slavery to Mass Incarceration” by Loïc Wacquant the most intriguing. This particular article is based on “rethinking the ‘race question’ in the US” and the disproportionate institutions set apart for African Americans in the United States. The volatile beginnings of African Americans presented obvious hardships for future advancement‚ but Wacquant argues that they still suffer from a form
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First is how mass incarceration affects the communities. One of the first issues that is talked about in the article is this issue of Invisible Inequality. “Inequality worsens both crimes of poverty motivated by need for goods for use and crime of wealth motivated by greed”‚ (Barak‚ et. al.‚ 2015). This issue has many aspects but the main aspect of this issue is that when data is being collected for different types of community well-being studies such as unemployment the people that are incarcerated
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Alexander‚ Michelle. 2010. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York : [Jackson‚ Tenn.]: New Press ; HV9950 .A437 2010 The Birth of Slavery in the US 1. In the 17th century labor for plantations was based on indentured servitude. 2. 1675 Bacon’s Rebellion 3. By 1770 "By the mid-1770s‚ the system of bond labor had been thoroughly transformed into a racial caste system predicated on slavery. "Racial division was a consequence‚ not a precondition of slavery
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Alexander was very detailed in her speech about how drug warm mass incarceration and Jim Crow are connected. She explained that more than half of working-age African American men are having criminal records. People with criminal records lost the right to vote‚ the right to serve on juries‚ access to education and face discrimination in employment. African American men with criminal records are living a life that Alexander claimed to be different than African American people that lived in the Jim
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terrorism‚ which has sustained a movement of mass criminalization‚ in the name of public safety. However this safety has been a way to suppress those trying to challenge the status quo and reveal the true underlying which sparked the rise of mass incarceration.
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Emergency Room Overcrowding and Wait Times: The Direct Impact on Patient Care Joann Hobbs Spalding University Abstract Background. This study was done to determine if prolonged wait times in the emergency department (ED) effect overall care and treatment of patients. Methods. This project used questionnaires that were distributed to patients at 6 local emergency rooms‚ electronic data collected from said facilities‚ as well as interviews from the nursing staff on duty at the time of distribution
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Juvenile Rehabilitation: Adult Prisons vs. Juvenile Incarceration Maureen Fries-Labra English 122 Anna Hopson December 14‚ 2009 Juvenile Rehabilitation: Adult Prisons vs. Juvenile Incarceration The criminal justice system has a branch for juvenile offenders. Established in the early twentieth century; it is the responsibility of this division to decide the fates of youthful offenders. This is administered by family court with support of social workers and family. With the increased number
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1. Examine the underlying historical and economic reasons as to why the quest for alternatives to incarcerating offenders in jails and prisons. 2. Describe three alternatives to incarceration that juvenile courts currently use. 3. Discuss the significant and societal and individual benefits of imposing sanctions or punishments that do not involve removing an offender from his/her family or community. Strayer University Historical and Economic reasons In the early 1920’s and 1930’s instead of placing
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness was written by Michelle Alexander to expose the truth of racial injustice in the system of mass incarceration through the comparison of the racial control during the Jim Crow Era. She reveals how race plays an important role in the American Justice System. Alexander argues about the racial bias‚ particularly towards African-Americans‚ immanent in the war on drugs as a result of their lack of political power and how the Supreme Court
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negative view to plea-bargaining‚ this research paper aims to show the positives and negatives of plea-bargaining. Critics of plea-bargaining believe that sentences demonstrate to be more lenient to the defendants‚ contributes to the issue of mass incarceration‚ and how the Crown persuades defendants into pleading guilty. Nevertheless‚ supporters of plea bargains find that plea deals are beginning to including the victims
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