Are We Beginning to Chip Away at Mass Incarceration? An Example from New York State

Chris Chaky — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 02:17:37 +0000

Last week, our class discussed mass incarceration, the system by which a vastly disproportionate amount of people of color are imprisoned for the use or distribution of illegal drugs. The situation is quite bleak; the system has been escalating for the past few decades and has wreaked havoc among communities of lower class people of color. Nevertheless, there may in fact be a ray of light at the end of the tunnel. Throughout the country, ...

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Are We Beginning to Chip Away at Mass Incarceration? An Example from New York State