Effect of Mass Incarceration on African-American Men

Effect of Mass Incarceration on African-American Men

Introduction

The very specific sense of race as a state principle of social division and vision which the U.S. has invented, almost unique in the world for its consequentiality and rigidity, is a direct consequence of the clash between democracy and slavery after the easement was established as a major form of military labor service and control in an undeveloped colony, inhabited by an agricultural system of marketed products.

In late June 2005, there were more than 2.1 million of the people detained in prisons and jails in the U.S. - Which corresponds to 136 residents of the United States (Beck, 2003). The mass incarceration of people in the United States has had a negative effect on people of color, especially African American men. The African-American men who are incarcerated and then enter their communities upon release faces many obstacles, including unemployment, deprivation, poor health, limited housing and insufficient health care access. These obstacles have socio-economic and health effects on their children, communities and families. Among those imprisoned in 2005 were 548,300 African American men between 20 and 39 of age. Particularly, 4.7 percent of black men were 1.9 percent of Hispanic men and 0.7 percent of white men imprisoned in mid of the year 2005. Moreover, the containment of all African-American men from 5 to 7 times that for white men. Equally alarming, African American men between 25 and 29 of age have the highest rate of incarceration compared to other ethnic and racial groups.

Slavery of Blacks

In 1900 the southern part of the legal system was completely reconfigured to ensure that one of its main objectives is forced African Americans to observe social customs and labor demands of whites. "Thousands of needy random black men were arrested for" total unemployment rate is not able to prove employment at any time, change employers without "authorization" or even talk loudly. In other words, were arrested that young blacks. They were sentenced to hard labor, and bought and sold by a sheriff and judges, among other companies like U.S. opportunistic steel, coal, Tennessee, railways, factories, fields and wood. The prisoners were sent to the mines and were chained in their quarters at night and have to work all day - "subject to the whip by the lack of digging the required amount of risk of physical torture for disobedience, and vulnerable to sexual predation had other miners - many of whom have spent years, even decades of their own imprisonment chthonic "hundreds of deaths from illness, accident or murder, and indeed may be the cemetery of the fields in the vicinity of these old mines still are under development.

It was the desire to industrialize the South soon the center of the restrictions put in place to oppress black, because these laws allow an easy arrest and enslavement of the workers, but also very important, "became the centers of a gun protruding slaves main deletion want black. "Millions of blacks living in the ...