Oh shyt @ciroq drobama they got your gurl michelle alexander on this....
Almost everyone in this neighborhood has been locked up at some point
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On queue, dude just said over a recent 10 year period, the average national growth rate of prisons was 13%, but in Kentucky the growth rate is 45%.
this is disgusting...
they had Bryan Stevenson too.
I don't know what is surprising about this. EVERYTIME I hang out in project housing, it's always 9/10 adult males have been to prison.
Don't bring that shyt in this thread. This topic is serious and deserves not to be derailed.
I think one of the worse parts of the segments was watching those little kids shake their hips commercial urban music by nicki manji, like they were idolizing her.
breh, don't get distracted by thatI think one of the worse parts of the segments was watching those little kids shake their hips commercial urban music by nicki manji, like they were idolizing her.
kids will do stupid things, its part of being a kid, focus on the powerful institutions that make life changing decisions for these people
man there has to be a better re-intergration system for people with felonies....at least nonviolent offenses...
I think that problem is allowed to go on partly due to racism and partly because the prisons make money from having bodies
this research article is eye opening
partial quote and link below
In 2003, the sociologist Devah Pager published the results of an audit-pair study of Milwaukee-area employers designed to evaluate whether criminal history influenced the odds of a job applicant receiving a callback from an employer after an initial interview. Pager formed two pairs of auditor teams, one composed of two white students, and the other composed of two black students. The teams were matched on the basis of physical appearance and mode of self-presentation and were given identical work history and education credentials. The audit pairs were randomly assigned to 15 introductory job interviews each week, drawn from postings for entry-level positions in the local newspaper and online. At any given time, one of the auditors was asked to represent that he or she had been convicted of felony cocaine possession and had served an eighteen-month prison sentence.60
Pager discovered that regardless of race, a criminal record drastically reduced the chance of receiving a callback from an employer. A criminal record reduced the likelihood of a callback by fifty percent for whites. Blacks, however, fared much worse; Pager reported that the effect of a criminal record was forty percent larger for blacks than for whites.61 Pager also collected qualitative evidence to suggest that employers anticipated black criminality. On at least three occasions, black auditors were asked preemptively about their criminal records. No white auditor had the same experience.
Pager’s study was the first research project to empirically validate a mechanism linking felon status to reduced job prospects. Her findings strongly support the hypothesis that a direct causal relationship exists between criminal recordand unemployment.62 Black auditors who represented a criminal record applied to two hundred entry-level positions and yet received fewer than ten callbacks (much less outright job offers). And these results were in spite of Pager’s use of articulate, well-dressed college students with effective modes of self-presentation. (quit sagging and talking that slang, that's why they don't like you)
In addition to illuminating the profound obstacles to employment that all ex-felons face, Pager’s study showed that African Americans are doubly victimized by ex-felon discrimination. In addition to their disproportionate representation in the ranks of the incarcerated, Pager’s data indicates that a criminal history has a stronger negative effect on black applicants than it has on white applicants. Ex-felon discrimination thus exaggerates the preexisting structural disadvantage of minority overrepresentation in prisons by making employers more likely to make racially biased hiring decisions. Given this double discrimination, mass incarceration helps explain the puzzle of the high rate of involuntary employment and labor force withdrawal among working and middle-class blacks.63
The extraordinarily high incidence of plea-bargaining in the American criminal justice system exacerbates the racially discriminatory function of ex-felon discrimination. American criminal sentencing is predicated upon laws that are “draconian on the books but mitigated in practice, largely through the practice of plea-bargaining.”64 It is well established that there exists a substantial “trial penalty,” in the form of longer sentences, for the five percent of American criminal defendants who pursue their cases to jury trial in lieu of pleading guilty.65 And the coercive power of the trial penalty makes more defendants plead guilty: as early as 1975, researchers observed that the plea-bargaining system serves to increase the number of defendants who emerge from the criminal justice system bearing a felony record.66
Plea-bargaining is in the short-term interest of criminal defendants because it yields substantially lower sentences than sentences that follow jury trials. But by increasing the proportion of criminal defendants who end up with criminal records, the plea system amplifies the long-term collateral consequences of an encounter with the criminal justice system on life chances—and especially on employability. And the burden is likely to be particularly heavy for minority defendants, for three reasons. First, they represent a disproportionately large percentage of all criminal defendants, so any process that makes defendants more likely to emerge from encounters with the courts bearing criminal records will adversely impact minority defendants who seek jobs after serving their sentences.67 Second, blacks fare worse at trial than whites and are more likely to be incarcerated following a trial—a fact that many black defendants surely recognize.68 It follows that it is rational for black defendants to negotiate reduces sentences via a plea arrangement, even when it would be irrational for a similarly situated white defendant to do so.Finally, minority defendants are more likely to be impoverished and unable to post bail. One major incentive to plea-bargain for defendants who cannot post bail is that it can result in a faster release from incarceration.69
The large-scale plea-bargaining that is the norm in the American criminal justice system results in a larger proportion of defendants who leave the country’s courtrooms with criminal records. This is especially the case for minority defendants, a racial disparity that aggravates the racially disparate impact of the pernicious, long-term collateral consequences of a criminal record.
Many questions remain about how discrimination against ex-felons operates in practice. In particular, it is not known whether employers categorically disfavor applicants with criminal records or whether certain crimes are associated with better or worse hiring outcomes.70 However, it is clear that ex-felon discrimination is a form of racial discrimination with profound implications for black unemployment.
https://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/...ue1/Segall14U.Pa.J.L.&Soc.Change159(2011).pdf
the entire article is a must read
Brehs, we gotta get on this thing...this shyt is so serious
@Sensitive Blake Griffin we waiting for you to speak on this 
sorry guys, I'm waiting til I get some time to watch the PBS doc, cuz I don't think I've heard of this place before now@Sensitive Blake Griffin we waiting for you to speak on this
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I think that problem is allowed to go on partly due to racism and partly because the prisons make money from having bodies
this research article is eye opening
partial quote and link below
https://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/jlasc/articles/volume14/issue1/Segall14U.Pa.J.L.&Soc.Change159(2011).pdf
the entire article is a must read
Brehs, we gotta get on this thing...this shyt is so serious
Just confirms everything I've been reading in this book. I suggest everyone read this, but be forwarned it will piss you off.
fukk America.