{"id":2848,"date":"2021-06-03T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0503-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2021-06-02T01:24:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T01:24:26","slug":"dwayne-wellington-m-alexander-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0503-introduction-to-american-government-summer-2021\/2021\/06\/03\/dwayne-wellington-m-alexander-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Wellington-M. Alexander Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
  1. M. Alexander claims that the main explanation of why so many people are sent to jail in the U.S. is deeply wrong. Explain her argument by referring to the various example she mentions to back up here point.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Michelle Alexander main explanation of why so many people are sent to jail in the U.S. today is based on the justice system to label people of color as criminals. She also stated that they are subject to legal discrimination in employment, housing, education, public benefits, and jury service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2. Why is it that racial disparities in the rates of incarceration \u201ccannot be explained by rates of drug crimes\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Michelle Alexander in her writings pointed to the impact of the drug war as dumbfounding stating that \u201cIn less than thirty years, the U.S. penal population exploded from around 300,000 to more than 2 million, with drug convictions accounting for the majority of the increase. The United States now has the highest incarceration rate in the world, dwarfing the rates in highly repressive rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran.  In Germany, 93 people are in prison for every 100,000 adults and children.  In the United States, the rate is roughly eight times that or 750 per 100,000.8\u201d (p 6)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    She went on to say that, \u201cThe racial dimension of mass incarceration is its most striking feature.  No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities.  The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.\u201d (p 6-7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I believe given the statistical information obtain through Michelle Alexander\u2019s research, it is clear at least in my own perception why racial disparities in the rate of incarceration cannot be explained by rates of drug crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    3. How do you understand the phrase: \u201cthe American penal system has emerged as a system of social control unparalleled in world history\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I think Alexander may have been alerting her audience to the fact that this is the New Jim Crow noting that the notion of \u201ccolorblindness\u201d serves only as a covering to the true reality of a new racial eminence system. Alexander showed in her writings as recent as mid-1970 many were prisons would soon be obsolete becoming soothing of the past. In 1972 less than 350,00 people were imprisoned today a significant increase of a million.  Research shown that one in three young African American men will spend time in jail. Many cities across the US have seen more than half its African American men imprison, on parole or probation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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