Essays on Mass Incarceration

In 1865, under the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery was officially abolished in the United States. However, Black Americans have continued to experience forms of legal servitude through vagrancy laws, Jim Crow, and most recently, the War on Drugs. Beginning during Ronald Reagan’s presidency – fully embraced by his successors, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton –…

Mass incarceration is one of the biggest social issues in our society. Unfortunately we house 25% of the world’s prisoners. Mass incarceration is mass or extreme rates of imprisonment. This is caused by many factors that has led to this social issue, for example neglect or corruption from our government officials for example, lack of…

What is mass incarceration? This phenomenon refers to the current extreme rates of imprisonment. For decades mass incarceration had been an unsolved problem in America. There has been efforts in changing it, but none have really made a large impact on the imprisonment system. Mass incarceration does not have only one cause. As Well as…

The issue of mass incarceration due to drug-related crimes is a highly debated topic, especially in the United States of America because of the prevailing statistics. Today, the U.S. has 5% of the world’s total population, but at least 25% of this populace is incarcerated (Drug Policy Alliance, 2018). Indeed, the U.S. is the country…

Introduction We are number one! America likes to think of our nation as number one, the top, the best, and there are a lot of ways this is true. America is the number one economy in the world for example, America is also the number one destination for immigrants who are seeking a better life,…

With the United States having a higher prison incarceration rate than the countries we considered autocratic such as Iran, China and Germany one would hope that the War on Drugs implemented in the 1970s would soon come to an end, again one would hope. From the unjust use of prisoners set to help the community…

Beginning in the 1970s, Angela Davis has been a prominent advocate of prison reform. In fact, Davis takes a radical approach, believing reform isn’t enough and prisons should be abolished almost completely. Davis believes that the “tough on crime” laws of the ‘80s didn’t decrease crime or create safer neighborhoods, but instead inflated prison populations…

Michelle Alexander is the author of the book entitled The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, There are various chapters of this book and the different message has been delivered by them in a different manner. In chapter one of this book the author mostly talks about the renaissance of the…

The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration When we talk about mass incarceration, what’s the first thing that pops up into your mind? In our society today we have been misinformed about the reality of people being incarcerated. Sometimes being misinformed led for the prison system to take advantage of “convicts” but it’s all done legally. In…

When we talk about mass incarceration, what’s the first thing that pops up into your mind? In our society today we have been misinformed about the reality of people being incarcerated. Sometimes being misinformed led for the prison system to take advantage of “convicts” but it’s all done legally. In order to have a discussion…