13th
u.s prison population
1970- 300,000 something 1980- 513,900 1985- 759,100 1990- 1,179,200 2001- 878,400 were black people 2014- 2,306,200
alec
A political lobbying institution that created the Stand Your Ground Law which allowed Zimmerman, the cop who killed Trayvon Martin, to walk free as he pleaded self defense. It is made up of politicians and corporations which write Republican laws. thru Alec corporations can make our laws and they are EVERYWHERE. roughly 1/4 state legislators are members. it began around for 4 decades ago. nearly every bill passed being its its corporate sponsors: DIRECTV, STATE FARM, KOCH INDUSTRIES, PhRMA (lobbying group for the pharmaceutical industry), FED EX, DU PONT!!, COMCAST, WALMART, AND EXON MOBIL. walmart is the largest seller of LONG GUNS and the largest retailer of bullets in the WORLD. walmart is no longer a member but the family still FUNDS ALEC
black people could mot longer protect/defend themselves bc their entire generation of leader were STRIPPED FROM THEM THROUGH
MURDER, INCARCERATION, OR BEJNG RUN OUT OF THE COUNTRY
a nixon advisor once said
The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left in the Black people. Do you understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but I getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and the blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We can rest their leaders, read their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify the night after night on the evening news. Did we know that we were lying about the problem? of course we did.
1994 federal crime bill- clinton
a 30 billion dollar act that was heavily loaded towards law-enforcement incarceration and is responsible for A massive expansion of the prison system and created the infrastructure which allowed police to abuse power with overdone funding and aggression. 100,000 police officers were put on the street with insane militarization in every department with swat teams.
the role of CCA within ALEC
a correctional facility which lobbied ALEC to proposed bills like 3 strikes and mandatory sentencing, which guaranteed to keep a steady influx of bodies going into the prison system to generate the profit that would go to the shareholders of cca. they became the leader of private prisons with a 1.7 billion profit. a Corporation that get rich off punishment. through ALEC, CCA had a direct hand in crime policy like prison privatization and and the rapid increase in criminalization
"new democrats"
adopted centrist attitude to try and win- appear to be tough in crime
tv programs started to misrepresent black people through shows like Cops
and are over represented as criminals. made people afraid
cca is no longer apart the the american bail association is and is the forefront of ALEC's objective to privatize parole and probation
ankle bracelets force incarceration into the home instead of a prison. except now a private company profits from the gps gear.
crime increased during the time of the civil rights movement PURLY as a result of the demographic change that was coming out of WW2
baby boomers COMMITED MANY CRIMES, but these were pined largely on the civil rights movment
"super predator" described the generation of poor, fatherless, and jobless
beasts that needed to be controlled. when they see us. at this point black people were CRIMINALIZED even to their own community. Bush won election by emphasizing the violent actions of a black man and promised to be strict on criminals
THIS WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF BLACK FAMILIES
black men were being put away for life and were no longer fathers, this absence and destruction of the family furthered problems in the black community immensely MASS INCARSERATION
the emergence of crack cocaine is a largely black drug that was marketed inexpensivly and in small doses YET
cocaine (which was found with primarily white ppl) was less punishable then the possession of crack (mostly in the black community). the punishment for 1 ounce of crack was equivalent to the punishment for 100 ounces of powdered cocaine
SB1070
have police the right to stop ANYONE they thought looked like an immigrant. it filled immigration detention facilities and it directly benefited an ALEC member, CCA.
incarceration for 1/3 black man
incarceration for 1/17 white men. black men are 6.5% the u.s population but make up 40.2% of the prison population. there are more african americans under criminal supervision TODAY then ALL THE SLAVES BACK IN THE 1850s
someone convicted
is unable to get food stamps, jobs, student loans or the right to vote. their own ******** CITIZENSHIP
mandatory minimums and truth in sentencing- clinton
judges could no longer consider the circumstances around a crime and were forced to impose a mandatory sentence. So now judges who are trying to dispense justice on a daily basis are unable to do so and I'm taking discretion away from the judges, arguably the most neutral party in the court, and are giving it over to prosecutors. 95% of the elected prosecutors throughout the US are white. truth in sentencing took away parole and insured those sentenced served at least 85% of their sentence
INTERRACIAL RAPE
occurs more highly with white men against black woman than it occurs between black men to white woman
southern strategy
persuaded southern whites to vote republican as well as turn southern democratic canadites to run republican. it was continued with reagan with an political strategist named , Lee Atwater, who admitted ON TAPE that their objective was to target black people through "forced-bussing" and "states rights" which leads to telling southerners about cutting taxes, which are economic things yet the byproduct of them is "blacks get hurt worse than whites"
in the 1970's prison populations increase as a result of Nixon's "war on crime"
practically code for war against race movements, anti war (vietnam) movements, feminism movements and gay rights movements
Prison Industrial Complex
refers to the system of mass incarceration in companies that profit from mass incarceration. venders like the company which provides phones inflate prices to make a "pretty penny" on inmates calls to family. if you work minimum wage in Maryland you have to work for an hour and a half to afford a 10 minute call. aramark provides food, there has also been cases of maggot TAINTED food. corizon provides healthcare services in 28 different states which is a MULTI MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT. the system has been miniatures and makes money off of free prison labor. CORPORATIONS PROFIT FROM PUNISHMENT
segregation=
sentenced black people to the 2nd class status
Reagan made the war on drugs an actual war through his determination to make drugs seem like a problem for EVERYONE despite popular polls showing data that most Americans were not affected by drugs
the just say no camping was not necessarily terrible, as it was an act of PREVENTION, but Reagan made it criminal with bias toward black people. there is a frontal assault on social programs (welfare, social security, mental health programs)
we have a criminal justice System that treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. bail funds are too expensive.
the system is not run by judges and juries. if everyone requested to go to trial, THE WHOLE SYSTEM WOULD SHUT DOWN. forced to settle for lesser sentences so as not to risk trial. 97% of people locked up have plea bargained and never seen trial. people pleading guilty to crimes they didn't commit just because the thought of going to jail for what the mandatory minimums is so excruciating. if they don't take the plea bargain, they can be convicted and punished for that even harder, and must stay in prison, forced to cope, while waiting to plead innocent in their trial. the prison system is DESIGNED to BREAK you in 30 days.
black panthers were never that big
they could've never taken down the biggest military complex the world has never seen... yet they were terrorists. black leaders who stood against the system were assassinated, jailed and DISCREDITED. angela davis was geared as an example of how scary the black intellect is.
the Birth of a nation is one of the first films in american history and romanticized the KKK as well as implemented the savage complex around black men/people
this in turn resulted in a spike of KKK popularity/membership and pushed the narrative that black people were less than human
there is a clause in the 13 amendment that allows slavery so long as the black person is incarcerated
this is when prison systems truly began, so that the southern economy crippled by the civil war, could use free labor of 4 million "new" citizens no longer defined as slaves
this kkk presence between reconstruction and WW2 is responsible for unprecedented amounts of lynchings and the relocation of black people from the south to major cites
this move was not the result of black people looking for economic opportunity but rather the result of extreme terror (they left the south BECAUSE of the TERRORISM of the KKK)
law and order was a popularized term that largely referent to gaining back control after the backleashes of the civil rights movements
this was disguised as a respect for law
3 strikes and you're out law- clinton
when you commit as third violent crime you are sent away to prison for life. this forced los angeles police department to release 4,200 misdemeanor inmates every month to make room to 3rd struck offenders.
