Book Summary: The New Jim Crow By Michelle Alexander

Truong 1
Anthony Truong
Professor Gleason
Eng 103
12/2/15
Modern Slavery Just how corrupted is America's prison system different compared to prison systems of other countries? In Michelle Alexander's,"The New Jim Crow," she goes in depth on how America's prison system is unjust and answers the questions of how mass incarceration in the United States today constitute a system of racialized social control. In addition to that she also explains the value in framing the Prison Industrial Complex as “The New Jim Crow” and Lastly, she talks about what is the impact on our cultural values and national ethics as we debate the social and racial dynamics of mass incarceration and how mass incarceration is a new form of modern salvery. "The New Jim …show more content…
This further reinforces the idea of how modern salvery still exists today and is not really abolished. The "stop-and-frisk" rule is an example of how corrupted the government is in terms of defining if a person is in posession of drugs, it grants police and law enforcement the ability to search people based on "suspicion" instead of probable cause. This opens the doorway for discriminatory and racial practices. Law enforcements and police can find an individual "suspicious" based on the person looks, dresses, and even how they walk. Alexander points out, skin color plays a major role in a person getting the "stop-and-frisk" treatment. This supports the statistic constructed by Alexander that nearly 90 percent of drug charges are black even though whites are more likely to engage in drug activity. This happens because the law enforcements tend to patrol around the poor communities more often because in those communities drugs are done more publicly whereas in rich communities, people tend to do their drugs indoors. Alexander also states how the degree of the punishment and crime and heavily influence by the type and form of the drugs a person is caught with. Law enforcement punish crack rock cocaine more harshly than powdered cocaine serving as a reminder of the discriminatory approaches to drug crime. Alexander provides numerous statistics that suggest that poor black men are on the whole, stopped more often by police and law enforcement, arrested more often, and imprisoned more often than white offenders just because of how the communities look and

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