Challenging these biased algorithms may be more difficult than challenging discrimination by the police, prosecutors and judges. A decade ago in Chicago, for instance, 55% of the adult black male population had a felony record. $19.95, 336 pages. I believe that she has done just that in this book, which I highly recommend. This ability adds depth and dimension to his review and shows us that she was expecting her ideas to be rejected. You’re effectively sentenced to an open-air digital prison, one that may not extend beyond your house, your block or your neighborhood. Those that are transparent — you can actually read the code — lack a public audit so it’s impossible to know how much more often they fail for people of color.
The rapid fire of a lynching has been turned over to the slow crock pot cookery of the criminal justice system that titillates the fear response of the “free” and lets the “guilty” decay in cells. One false step (or one malfunction of the GPS tracking device) will bring cops to your front door, your workplace, or wherever they find you and snatch you right back to jail. It is something we need to be conscious of as people who want to end all social castes. The figures are extraordinary. . But at what cost give us money for educational programs and charity but AT&T will not hire us or promote us in the work place as I have experienced here for almost 18 years it reminds me of Jim Crow tactics with a touch of Natzism for taste. There is a serious problem with those who

Submitted by Dennis on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 15:41, Rose Davis, the editor of Indian Voices newspaper, upon coming back from a two day brain storming session that took place in Los Angeles at a symposium sponsored by New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice's Center on Media, Crime and Justice at the University of Southern California, stated in the May issue of Indian Voices: "Institutionalized racism within the police-court-prison and its impact on the poor African-American, Latino, and Native American communities created a lively discussion at the conference of experts, guided by center director Stephen Handelman and Joe Domanick, the associate director. —Slate, “Two years after Obama’s election, Alexander put the entire criminal justice system on trial, exposing racial discrimination from lawmaking to policing to the denial of voting rights to ex-prisoners. RCR Wireless News published a Sept. 20 story on allegations in the discrimination suits filed by several African-American men and a Hispanic man. First-time drug offenders can face 10 years imprisonment; thousands of black Americans, following plea-bargaining, languish in jail for crimes they did not commit because of fears of these mandatory sentences. "But the only issue before us is whether Connick, as the policy maker for the district attorney's office, was deliberately indifferent to the need to train the attorneys under his authority. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. warned that “when machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” We failed to heed his warning back then. If you asked slaves if they would rather live with their families and raise their own children, albeit subject to “whites only signs,” legal discrimination and Jim Crow segregation, they’d almost certainly say: I’ll take Jim Crow. While this book focuses on the war on drugs and the racism inherent in mass incarceration, it isn’t a complete indictment of the prison system as one of subjugation of the classes, commodification of their bodies, destroyer of their communities, perpetuator of their oppression, and a method of forced migration that furthers gentrification. There's a problem loading this menu right now. The Prison Industrial Complex, as it has metastasized, is a collision of pathologies of the American collective psyche that values profits over people and White bodies over all others. This page works best with JavaScript. Michelle Alexander's groundbreaking book was the subject for roundtable discussion during "Standing and Understand Together for Change" on February 25th at Brooklyn College, which was sponsored by BC Mellon Undergraduate Fellowship Program at Brooklyn College. "Cingular Wireless determined that it should conduct a review of its diversity and affirmative action efforts to assist it in meeting its obligations under Executive Order 11246. The facts in this book are hard to swallow but...true!
But if the “war on drugs” was simply a question of controlling crime then college campuses, rather than black ghettos, would have been a safer bet. This began a pattern of threatened demonstrations followed by last minute deals which eventually led to the desegregation of hotels, movie theatres and restaurants. ", Submitted by Michal Payne on Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:49, Submitted by Dennis on Mon, 08/11/2014 - 12:46, Submitted by Dennis on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 13:28. Clearly, there seemed to have been a racial and cultural bias at the company, which is probably why the company was so intent on putting the SCENDIS Report under court seal. ", Submitted by Dennis on Thu, 04/07/2011 - 16:23, Inmates in prisons and jails, even minor offenders, are finding they not only have to do the time, but they have to pay-for booking, rent, routine medical care, and even electronic monitoring once they are released, according to a report by Kenneth J. Cooper, "Special to the NNPA. The law is supposedly colour-blind but narratives around crimes are framed according to those deemed worthy or unworthy of compassion. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Under the laws, black people also, increasingly, found themselves “relegated to convict leasing camps that were, in many ways, worse than slavery”. I do believe God was the author of my fate this is why I have survived. I wish more white people like you were willing to see the forest and the trees then maybe we could start to heal this place we call America. Recent criminal justice reforms contain the seeds of a frightening system of “e-carceration.”. Alexander’s book offers a timely and original framework for understanding mass incarceration, its roots to Jim Crow, our modern caste system, and what must be done to eliminate it. The New Jim Crow has become, to some, the seminal reading on the current state of American incarceration and how it got that way. . My son, Damien, proudly wears a tattoo on his arm that says: “Only God Can Judge Him!” One of the first things he did after coming home, my Christmas present, was to go to our Church the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago and get baptized. This scholarly examination and critique of race, The New Jim Crow, clearly states in the introduction of the book: “It justifies a legal, social, and economic boundary between ‘us’ and ‘them.’ Chapter 5 also explores some of the differences among slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration, most significantly the fact that mass incarceration is designed to warehouse a population deemed disposable – unnecessary to the functioning of the new global economy – while earlier systems of control were designed to exploit and control black labor.” Try to explain that to the mostly black and brown brothers that I regularly visit and minister to at RJ Donovan Prison in San Diego County, and those that I once ministered to in Illinois jails and prisons! A Senate committee approves a bipartisan bill that would cut lengthy jail terms for many offenders, according to a story by Timothy M. Phelps in the Los Angeles Times on Friday, January 31, 2014. And while the PIC doesn’t necessarily have to be racialized, it undeniably is.

What this article is really saying about prison health workers ranking high in pay survey, is that a lot of people are benefiting from the incarceration of the mostly minority population at Donovan Prison and other prisons across the country. Jim Crow was more than just a series of rigid anti-Black laws. .The New Jim Crow is a grand wake-up call in the midst of a long slumber of indifference to the poor and vulnerable.” —Cornel West, “[An] extraordinary book.”  —Marian Wright Edelman, “Contrary to the rosy picture of race embodied in Barack Obama’s political success and Oprah Winfrey’s financial success, legal scholar Alexander argues vigorously and persuasively that ‘[w]e have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.’ Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as ‘a system of social control’ (‘More African Americans are under correctional control today. I would gladly do business with this Seller again in the future. As O’Neil explains, “It’s tempting to believe that computers will be neutral and objective, but algorithms are nothing more than opinions embedded in mathematics.”. when the sign insults the only two blacks working here. At one point in her talk, she stated that we needed to “start a mass movement.” I was with her when she said she wants to abolish the Prison Industrial Complex. {Michelle Alexander will present her work at an event beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 2, in Dixon Hall on Tulane University’s Campus.More on the event here.}. 06-1928). Since 2010, when I published “The New Jim Crow” — which argued that a system of legal discrimination and segregation had been born again in this country because of the war on drugs and mass incarceration — there have been significant changes to drug policy, sentencing and re-entry, including “ban the box” initiatives aimed at eliminating barriers to employment for formerly incarcerated people. This was purportedly a report of self-reflection, or how the company was dealing with issues of race and gender. Even if you’re lucky enough to be set “free” from a brick-and-mortar jail thanks to a computer algorithm, an expensive monitoring device likely will be shackled to your ankle — a GPS tracking device provided by a private company that may charge you around $300 per month, an involuntary leasing fee. These details would not be known without the book review. Alexander wrote recently in the New York Times that she’s encouraged by “the astonishing changes that have been made in the last several years on a wide range of criminal justice issues”, including Florida restoring voting rights to more than 1.4 million people with felony convictions. (See, e.g., Howard N. Snyder and Melissa Sickman, Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention).


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