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Minorities in America’s Prisons Renita Redding ENG 122 Instructor: Sharon Linne November 23, 2014 Since the 18th century imprisonment has been the method of punishing crime in America. Today there are about two million people incarcerated in federal and state prison institutions in the United States (Page, Whetstone, 2014). The most alarming statistic associated with America’s prison population is the disproportionate number of minorities that are represented. According to Page and Whetstone, “the United States’ unprecedented expansion of imprisonment since the late 1970’s has disproportionately affected African Americans, intensifying inequality and transferring the way some people look at race issues”. Even though, there is an array
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Its origin is the unequal distribution of wealth, power and values amongst the poor minorities and rich whites. The solution to this social problem is the Prison Abolition movement. Key Words: Prison Industrial Complex, Rockefeller, Davis, Community Education Centers, Halfway houses, Conflict theory, Inequalities of race, Unequal distribution of wealth, Prison Abolition Movement "Prison Industrial Complex" (PIC) is a term used to describe the fast growth of the United States inmate population to the political effects of independent prison corporations and companies that provide goods and services to government prison agencies and the Industries. Activists have described PIC as perpetuating a belief that is used to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to what are, in actuality, imprisonment is a quick fix to underlying political, economic and social problems such as homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and
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It also imposes life in prison for a third conviction. II. Proposition 184, the three strikes law, was imposed to sentence repeat criminals with harsher sentence A. California’s current “three strikes” law B. The original law was approved in 1994 C. The California Supreme Court has judges presiding over such cases D. Proposition 36 went into effect on July 1, 2001 III. Pros and Cons on the “Three Strikes” law A.