Prison Industrial Complex

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Why All Communities Must Demand an End to Police Brutality

 

The images out of Ferguson, Missouri, these past two weeks have been shocking: tear gas blanketing suburban streets, law enforcement creating a war zone and defiant protesters braving it all. But it is important to remember that what started Ferguson’s fight is far too common: the police killing of an unarmed black teen.

African-Americans are the primary targets of law-enforcement profiling and violence, as the killings of Oscar Grant, Sean Bell, Jonathan Ferrell and Eric Garner all attest. But during this past week, Latino, Asian-American, Arab-American and Muslim organizations have all released statements of solidarity informed by similar experiences with discriminatory law enforcement practices, as well as an urgency to collectively identify and implement solutions.

 

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Source: www.thenation.com

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Law Enforcement-Above The Law

 

This week has been exhausting. Thankfully, I subscribe to other blogs that give me a sigh of relief with gorgeous photos and quotes of wisdom. However, it’s not long before I return to thinking about seeing law enforcement on the streets of America with equipment that was manufactured and intended for use by military troops.

 

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Source: blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com

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Building the Movement to End the New Jim Crow

This booklet follows the ideas from the book The New Jim Crow with action. With stories, it teaches how to build groups, win campaigns, and grow a movement.

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9 Ways You Can Stop Mass Incarceration

  1. Vote against the war on drugs.
  2. Vote for drug treatment – not punishment.
  3. Vote against mandatory minimum sentencing. Mandatory minimum sentencing takes the sentencing power away from the judge.
  4. Spread the word about mass incarceration and The New Jim Crow.
  5. Vote for better public schools – schools for everyone – not charter schools for a few.
  6. Tell everyone that we want to be a land of opportunities, not a land of oppression.
  7. Vote to have drugs controlled by pharmacies and taxed.
  8. Get angry.
  9. Stay angry.

See on communityvillageus.blogspot.com

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Racial Disparity – Likelihood of Imprisonment

 

“More than 60% of the people in prison are now racial and ethnic minorities. For Black males in their thirties, 1 in every 10 is in prison or jail on any given day. These trends have been intensified by the disproportionate impact of the “war on drugs,” in which two-thirds of all persons in prison for drug offenses are people of color.”

 
See on www.sentencingproject.org

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Pennsylvania Judge Sentenced For 28 Years For Selling Kids to the Prison System

Mark Ciavarella Jr, a 61-year old former judge in Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for literally selling young juveniles for cash.

See on blog.blacknews.com

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New Jim Crow [VIDEO]

 

New Jim Crow

New Jim Crow

“Legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues persuasively we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as a system of social control.

More African Americans are under correctional control today than were enslaved in 1850

Alexander reviews American racist history from the colonies to the Clinton administration, delineating its deliberate transformation into the war on drugs. She provides analysis of the effect of this mass incarceration upon former inmates who will be discriminated against, legally, for the rest of their lives, denied employment, housing, education, and public benefits. Most provocatively, she reveals how both the move toward colorblindness and affirmative action may blur our vision of injustice. She spoke at Riverside Church in Manhattan May 21, 2011.

Michelle Alexander is a longtime civil rights advocate and litigator. She won a 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship and now holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Mortiz College of Law at Ohio State University.

Alexander served for several years as director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, and subsequently directed the Civil Rights Clinics at Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor. Alexander is a former law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court, and has appeared as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, DemocracyNow! and NPR. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is her first book.”

 

Audio: Riverside Church, Camera: Joe Friendly

Ready to learn more?
Here is Angela Davis on the topic.

Community Village‘s insight:

 

I love these women

#MichelleAlexander #AngelaDavis

 

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Incarceration in America: The Inside Story

 

“BOOKD profiles, The New Jim Crow, legal scholar Michelle Alexander’s breakthrough book about the rise of mass incarceration in America. Alexander agues that “by targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control.

See as a Yale Law Professor, Community Activists, and hip hop legend Talib Kweli debate and discuss this provocative and important book.”
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Corporations Reap Billions from Mass Incarceration Pt 2

What companies are profiting off of prisoners and mass incarceration?

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

The New Jim Crow

 

So much for freedom in America.

 

@getgln

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