https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/mass-incarceration-then-and-now
Whether called mass incarceration, mass imprisonment, the prison boom, the carceral state, or hyperincarceration, this phenomenon refers to the current American experiment in incarceration, which is defined by comparatively and historically extreme rates of imprisonment and by the concentration of imprisonment among young, African American men living in neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorbindness by Michelle Alexander
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition by Ruth Wilson Gimore
13th
Available on Netflix
In this animated interview, the sociologist Bruce Western explains the current inevitability of prison for certain demographics of young black men and how it's become a normal life event. "We've chosen the response of the deprivation of liberty for a historically aggrieved group, whose liberty in the United States was never firmly established to begin with," Western says.
In The Atlantic's October cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the impact of mass incarceration on the black family. Read the full story: http://theatln.tc/1MnL4Gf
