..., the criminal justice system, and incarceration were used as weapons by whites in power to oppress..., religious tradition, and region of the country" (454). . In 1974 African American women activists...However, "crime rates peaked in 1992 .. and have dropped sharply since,"...
...As incarceration rates have spiraled by over 500% in the last thirt... more than 1.5 million prisoners in the country (26) in mid-2007 were parents of children under th...
Prison "was never a tool to fight crime. It is an instrument to manage deprived and dishonored populations, which is quite a different task," says Loic Wacquant, a renowned ethnographer and social theorist who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley. Still, speaking by e-mail, Wacquant warns that the journey between slavery and mass incarceration must include two other "peculiar" institutions created to define and confine Blacks; "Jim Crow and the urban ghetto." Now, he says, "in the post-civil rights era, the penal system has gradually been recast to mean Black-and increasingly, Latino. The explosive prison growth of the past 30 years didn't happen by accident, and it wasn't driven primarily by crime rates or broad social and economic forces beyond the reach of state gove...
... (NNPA)-In communities around the country, Black people are missing. Neighborhoods languish....
The U.S. has more people in jail than any other nation - nearly two million people call an American jail or prison home. It's important to remember that nearly one million of these prisoners are incarcerated for nonviolent offenses. And, though study after study shows that upping incarceration rates doesn't rehabilitate these types of offenders, it's the model our country goes back to time and time again. Knowing this, it's not a stretch to assume that the growing business of selling inmates is an incentive for local governments to lock folks up. Prisons depend on the income the inmates generate. Corporations that profit from the cheap labor lobby the government for longer sentences and tougher crime laws. By doing this, they guarantee they'll have a cheap labor force for years to come....
As a poet, Fabu doesn't pull punches. To read her work is to be confronted with what this country's racist past has done to African Americans. And as a columnist for The Capital Times, she's written about how she's felt betrayed by white women; how she fears for black children in Wisconsin, with its dismal reading scores and high rates of incarceration for African Americans; how racism is alive and well in Madison and beyond. "To be black is to be political," she says. "Just the fact that I exist is political. Though Fabu never completed her Ph.D., African and African American culture are major themes of her poetry. Her chapbook, In Our Own Tongues, examines language through three generations of women in her family. Growing up, she recalls that her grandmother used so many African rete...
For many years, politicians on both sides of the aisle went to extreme lengths to avoid the perceived political suicide of being "soft on crime." Republicans and Democrats alike play politics with crime policy. Former President Clinton stood watch over the nation's largest prison expansion, and the current administration hasn't changed course. As a result of these policies, the United States, by far, has the highest incarceration rates in the world. The human toll of this sort of mass incarceration is incalculable. Communities are devastated by the absence of our sons, brother, fathers, mothers, daughters, sisters, states sacrifice public school funding to build more prisons, and people living behind bars are too often subjected to abusive and brutal prison conditions. And our country's...
Among those initiatives are the Queens Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison (DTAP Program) and the Queens Treatment Court (QTC), which both carefully select non-violent, jail-bound, drug-addicted defendants and divert them into community-based residential and out-patient treatment programs as an alternative to incarceration. Defendants selected for the DTAP Program are required to plead guilty with the condition that they enter and successfully complete a rigorous long-term - 15-24 months - residential treatment program. Since 1993, Queens County has among the highest, if not the highest, retention and successful completion rates in New York State of defendants who complete DTAP, 75 percent and 70 percent, respectively. QTC gives first time non-violent, drug-addicted felony offenders th...
... 71 percent - rates among the best in the country. District Attorney Brown said, "I am optimistic th...
... requires a more lengthy period of incarceration," but this presumption of release is not observed ... activity in areas with high theft rates--but it is much more difficult to assign values to... moved toward rural areas of the country; most prisoners are literally uncounted in the cen...
A lot of our work centers on moving this struggle from enforcing civil rights to both enforcing civil rights and realizing human rights," said NAACP President Benjamin T. Jealous. "A lot of the dispar- ities in this country go back to the fact that Black people still have a very hard time finding a good job, a very hard time getting their kids to be able to attend good schools, and if we can take care of those basics - good job, good school - then we could also deal with this completely unnatural, historical and very serious, dramatic rise in the incarceration rates of Black people in this country. Deal with these structural problems, then this country will move toward being postracial much more quickly. But right now, there's a big rock that stands between most working-class and poor ...
...This incarceration binge is not free. The annual prison costs have g... where we are in international incarceration rates. The United States now is the world's leading inc...In cities across the country, prevention, education, and rehabilitation efforts...
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