Mass Incarceration
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Wurde aktualisiert: 22 Okt 2018
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Created byJoseph Chen
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Prison Population in the USA is up to 1.4 MillionUSA has 670 inmates per every 100,000 peoplePrisons populations:
38% African American
20% Hispanic
7% FemaleClinton signs Violent Crime Control
and Law Enforcement Act.
Allows for harsher convictions of crimes.Attack on the World Trade center.
Passes the Patriot Act.
Allows for more and more
surveilance and intrusion.1986 Drug Abuse Act.
Creates a minimum 5 year
sentence for possession of crack cocaine/cocaine.Reagan commits to a new war on drugs.Michelle Alexander publishes the New Jim CrowPerioden
1985-1992
"Heyday of the war on drugs" Gottschalk p. 1281990s onward:
Period of longer and longer prison sentences.
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