18 things you should know about mass incarceration

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. The mass incarceration of African-Americans (and the poor) is horrendous; but ...

did anyone see what was/is being done here (not by you, ismnotwasm ... hey, I just paid attention to you screen name ... I like it's truth) ...

Buried in the midst of the slides (#6 and 8 and then again at #16) the REAL purpose of this slide show is revealed ... "Be upset about the mass incarceration because ... DRUGS!" ... not because the system is grossly over-represented, Black.

Were that, not, the case, why devote 3 (out of 18) slides to communicate what the final slide (#18) communicates ... the disparity between black and white.

BTW, I have read, and highly recommend, Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness ; but it is not what many try to make it out to be ... a pointed condemnation on the "War on Drugs", which was discussed (along with other policy phenomena like "Zero Tolerance" and school discipline policies) in a single chapter of a 6 chapter book.

Sorry ... Just got to get that out there!