In today’s society, mass incarceration is becoming more and more prevalent in the lives we see today. The New Yorker portrays elements socially, financially, and morally to engross the problem with mass incarceration in society. People are trying to successfully reduce mass incarceration and achieving racial equality.
Slavery ended years ago, and yet mass incarceration reminds us that our world is “basically divided in two.” (NY times) Studies have conveyed evidence “since 1980, Maryland’s population has tripled, to about twenty- one thousand, and, as in Wisconsin, there is a distressing racial disparity among inmates. The population of Maryland is about thirty per cent black; the prisons and local jails are more than seventy per cent black.” (NY times) This stat helps demonstrate that some African- Americans are being decimated against. Some are getting more jail time and a longer probation time for the same crime that a white man has committed. The stereotype of African- American men being hard and being all criminals has set society up to believe that they are all bad people. …show more content…
“African- American men of working age were behind bars- nearly double the national average, of 6.7 percent,” leaving their families left for no one to provide for them. Men in some communities are unable to get jobs and continue to be unemployed because of “a felony record for a nonviolent drug offense.” (NY times) Administration is “focused on tax cuts and budget cuts (especially for higher education) to help aid to mass incarceration” and felons who are unable to get job, creating a public union for jobs. (NY times) Children are being deprived the best chance of education because society is focused on paying for a significant mass amount of people within
Slavery ended years ago, and yet mass incarceration reminds us that our world is “basically divided in two.” (NY times) Studies have conveyed evidence “since 1980, Maryland’s population has tripled, to about twenty- one thousand, and, as in Wisconsin, there is a distressing racial disparity among inmates. The population of Maryland is about thirty per cent black; the prisons and local jails are more than seventy per cent black.” (NY times) This stat helps demonstrate that some African- Americans are being decimated against. Some are getting more jail time and a longer probation time for the same crime that a white man has committed. The stereotype of African- American men being hard and being all criminals has set society up to believe that they are all bad people. …show more content…
“African- American men of working age were behind bars- nearly double the national average, of 6.7 percent,” leaving their families left for no one to provide for them. Men in some communities are unable to get jobs and continue to be unemployed because of “a felony record for a nonviolent drug offense.” (NY times) Administration is “focused on tax cuts and budget cuts (especially for higher education) to help aid to mass incarceration” and felons who are unable to get job, creating a public union for jobs. (NY times) Children are being deprived the best chance of education because society is focused on paying for a significant mass amount of people within