Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Pew Center on
States
In Pennsylvania
1 in 28 adults
is under correctional control.
Once stopped
85% of Blacks and Latinos were
frisked compared to 8% of whites.
Results of Stop & Frisk?
Arrest
“State-by-state data
from 2006 show that
blacks were arrested
for drug offenses at
rates in individual
states that were
2 to 11.3 times
greater than
the rate for whites”
March 2, 2009 Decades of Disparity HRW
African Americans comprise
13% of population and
14% of monthly drug users but
37% of persons arrested for drug
offenses.
May 21 2009 testimony before Congress of Marc Mauer The Sentencing Project
So blacks, who use drugs at same
rate as whites, are arrested
200% to 1110% more.
Result?
Bail Bond
Blacks are 33% more likely to be
detained awaiting felony trials than
whites facing felony trials in some
parts of NY state. NYState division of
Since 2005
(US v Booker)
Black and Latino
men receive
federal sentences
10-23% longer
than whites.
Report - March 2010
African Americans are:
21% more likely to receive mandatory
minimum than white defendants; and
20% more likely to be sentenced to
prison than white drug defendants. May 21, 2009 testimony to
Prisoners
never regain
full human and
civil rights
Ex-offender employment?
Racialized
System of
Social Control
Stigma of criminality functions in
much the same way as Jim Crow:
• Legal boundaries between them and us;
• Social and economic boundaries between
them and us;
• Cannot vote;
• Can legally discriminate in jobs and
housing;
• Warehouse a disposable population;
Poor whites and people of other
ethnicity are also subjected to
this system of social control
because if they are out of line
they are treated just like poor
blacks –
the worst possible treatment
Criminal Justice System is
Integral Part of the
Domestic War on Marginalized
Because of globalization
there is an excess of people.
Capture
Immobilization
Punishment
Liquidation
Criminal Justice System
is working just fine
doing its part in the
Domestic Racist State Violence or
War at Home
Thus Abu Ghraib,
Guantanamo, US jails &
prisons
are all the same – domestic
& international versions
of domination
So,
what to do?
Adopt a
100 year
perspective on
law and justice
A radical approach to injustice
means to go to the
root of the problem
not trimming the leaves
not pruning the branches
but ripping up by the roots
the injustice.
First, open our hearts and
liberate our minds
We are all entitled to be safe
but is that what
this criminal justice system is?
Find and support alternatives.
“Nothing short
of a major
social
movement can
dismantle this
new caste
system.”
What about President Obama?
If the system is broken perhaps the
administration can help fix
small parts of it.
there is no
progress.
Seek Out
Hope
Joy
Love
Wherever you
find tragedy
and injustice