conspiracy) that there is a bounty on the heads of people of color executed on the individual (micro) and
According to the United States Census Bureau, African-Americans, of those who identified as “Black only,”
percent of the worlds prison population. Mass incarceration within the United States has been a severe issue
up for too long. Since the 1970’s the American incarceration rate has increased by a factor of 7. The
history American laws have been erected to disrupt and destroy the lives of African Americans, and prisons
criminal justice system. Minorities, in specific African Americans receive unequal treatment and punishment in
to White Americans. Throughout history, White Americans tried their level best to keep people of color
segregation of African Americans was at its prime. Historically and evidently, African Americans have been
unalienable rights,” and yet people ignore the fact that police officers treat colored people differently, and unjustly
Crow, Michelle Alexander expresses how mass incarceration is a form of racial control. She argues that