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War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration

Impact

Beginning Stages

More than one out of every six black men who today should be between 25 and 54 have disappeared from daily life.

The prison population began to grow in the 1970s, when politicians began to use fear and racial characteristics to create punitive policies.

Prison Population

Bills

Since 1970s, the prison population has increased by 700%. During this time, the marginalization and the use of drug practices targeted Black and Brown communities.

1984 Comprehensive Crime Control and Streets Act

1 in 41

182 bn

1.9 M

1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act

black adults in the U.S are incarcerated in state prisons

cost per year

1994 Violent Crime Control and Safe Streets Act

state prisons

1991 SCOTUS Mandatory Life Sentencing Not Cruel

Stories

With an industry that has been apart of the American government, crime remediation and urban education has been linked to mass incarceration. School to Prison pipeline and neighborhood overpolicing has led to extensive issues in police brutality and racism.

Diamonds Ford

For Profit

As Mass Incarceration became a country initiative, rural counties, prison gerrymandering and stock prices on private prisons began to emerge

Darrell Jackson

Bobby Bostic

More than 600,000 people return to their communities, with more than 2.5 million on parole or probation

11,136 number of laws and regulations nationwide that affect the ability of the previously incarcerated to obtain occupational licenses.

As states have grown their prison populations, mass incarceration has led to increase over crowding and health issues. This has led to further human rights violations

Prison Overcrowding

Police brutality and racial inequality were some of the heightened consequences of the control of black and brown bodies in the United States. While other factors like redlining and the lack of resources for these communities depict other avenues, police and crime remediation serve as an extension of mass incarceration.