Mass Incarceration Research Paper

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Racialized mass incarceration persists as an increasingly dominating governmental mechanism to control communities of color under the disguise of the 13th amendment and war on drugs; however, structural change, communital or organizational power, can change the world.
The explosive rise in inmate population and the severely disproportionate use of mass imprisonment against people of color part is a relentless part of a continuum which pervades through the Americas history of racial inequality. David Garland defined mass imprisonment society as one that, “ceases to be incarceration of individual offenders and becomes systematic imprisonment of whole groups” (Garland 2001). Therefore, race plays a key role in the social concentration of imprisonment,