Essays on Mass Incarceration

Mass incarceration is a worldwide problem in the U.S. that is yet to be solved. There are many people in the U.S. that are incarcerated based on crimes and issues goin on in the criminal justice system. The main concern here is what is mass incarceration? Mass incarceration is defined as the increase number of…

Introduction: What Even is the Prison Population Crisis? The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution declared that slaves were freed and that slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited. However, this agreement was made with one hidden condition that only a small portion of Americans know of: slavery remains technically allowed under the exception of…

The process at which the United State has locked up many people in prisons, as well as local jails. Most of the people that have been locked up in vast up in federal and state prisons are a minority. According to my perspective, I have been asking why do minorities have to be locked up?…

In Heather Ann Thompson’s essay, “Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History”, She brings valuable points to the importance and impact that mass incarceration had on the United States. She begins her essay talking about a large number of people incarcerated in the United States and explains that “Between…

The United States has more citizens in prisons than any other nations. The increase in the jail and prison population are from about 200,000 in 1972 to about 2.2 million today which has led to prisons being overcrowding. The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population but nearly 25 percent of its prisoner….

Root cause of mass incarceration is an insufficient amount of government policies that address the negative racial stereotypes the criminal justice system. Racial stereotypes and biases lay at the foundation of our criminal justice system. In our current criminal justice system there are no legal penalties for a police officer allowing racial prejudice to influence…

Mass Incarceration is a big issue that is still happening today. The United States has the largest prison population with about almost 2.5 million prisoners. According to the documentary The 13th, The start of mass incarceration started becoming a large issue when the war on drugs started the war on drugs was a movement that…

Prisons systems stimulate the American economy. This is because many companies put money into and profit from prison institutions and mass incarceration. This includes private prison companies and banks. Private prison companies have contracts with the government to operate hundreds of prisons, jails, and immigration detentions centers across America. These contracts force private prisons to…

For this paper I will be researching how the African American family is impacted by mass incarceration in the United States and how in turn this exposes the American ideal of equality as a myth. This is an increasingly pressing topic to discuss because of the abnormally high rates of incarceration among African Americans and…

Since president Nixon declared “war on drugs” in the 1970’s, over 500% of the prison population increased. As of right now there are more than 2.2 million people in prison. Most of the prison population is black and latinos who were convicted for possession. To be honest I believe the prison system is discriminatory against…