Understanding Mass Incarceration by Kilgore James

Author:Kilgore, James [Kilgore, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620971222
Publisher: The New Press

A Perfect Storm for Mass Incarceration

For mass incarceration to take root in Chicago, a number of processes had to take place:

1.Loss of well-paying legal jobs

2.Cutbacks in public housing and welfare programs

3.The War on Drugs, creating a hyperinflated Black underground economy that became the major large-scale economic opportunity for Black youth

4.Expansion of police power highlighted by the War on Drugs

5.The rise of gangs, first as a self-defense for ghetto youth, then as the local kingpins and networks of the drug trade

6.Escalating crime rates in the 1980s and 1990s

This perfect storm created a toxic social and criminal justice environment. Chicago police, already with a long history of unnecessary violence, became notorious for torturing dozens of alleged gang members into confessions. Many of them spent decades in prison before being pardoned and released.

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