M. Alexander claims that the main explanation of why so many people are sent to jail in the U.S. today is deeply wrong. Explain her argument by referring to the various examples she mentions to backup her point. (see p. 1-2)

M.Alexander made a claim of why many people are sent to jail wrongfully and I couldn’t agree more. One of the main reason why is because of a persons race or the community they come from. The system is only paying attention for a person skin color and missing the fact of the crime. M. Alexander expressed that in surveys taken shows more popularity of white people having a higher chance of commenting a drug crime than any other race. Although knowing that fact, our jails have more black people In prison for charges and cases that are lesser than a drug charge. Racially recrimination is a massive issue that our government has been making and a reason for Alexanders claim.

2) Racial disparities cannot be explained by drug crimes because majority of black people who are incarcerated get charges for life for something that if a white person was to commit it would be forbidden. White people have more privilege when it comes to the system. sometimes not but the most targeted communities are people of colors, why? because sometime they are seem as threat although all people of colors sells drugs at the same rate.

3) To me, “the American penal system has emerged as a system of social control unparalleled in world history” is more likely to me as if you have been incarcerated you no longer have rights because regardless of what was their charge they will always have to carry that with them specially when wanting to start a new life. Also it seems as a social control because they only see the bad in a certain group of people instead of all equally.