Part I(Ch07)
Please create a new post telling us about your reaction to the Prison Industrial Complex. What is the prison industrial complex? Discuss the relationship between race, gender, class, and sexual orientation and incarceration in the US? Tell us a couple interesting/disturbing things you learned about the Prison Industrial Complex, Mass Incarceration, and Race. Everyone must respond to at least five students’ posts and participate in the on-going conversation.
*You must incorporate information from both the reading and the documentary.
Part II:
Write a short respond after reading the post below:
The Prison Industrial Complex, or PIC, is an example that has made over progressing a long time in which the state and national government turns the supervising of a part of its correctional facilities over to private associations. These organizations by then run the prisons for advantage. The activity of these undertakings is furthermore connected with a great deal of political crusading, to affect the demise of institution that favors conditions for the profitability of these private correctional facilities. This has affected the correctional facility condition and the entire criminal value structure in different habits. Detainment in the United States is one of the essential structures of discipline and recovery for the commission of lawful offense and different offenses. The United States has the greatest correctional facility people on earth, and the most noteworthy per-capita detainment rate. In 2018 in the US, there were 698 people kept per 100,000, this consolidates the confinement rate for adults or people endeavored as adults. In 2016, 2.2 million Americans have been detained, which means for each 100,000 there are 655 that are starting at now prisoners. Prison, parole, and probation exercises make a $81 billion yearly cost to U.S. residents, while police and court costs, bail security charges, and prison phone costs produce another $100 billion in costs that are paid by individuals.
The Prison System isn't reasonable. One of the more extraordinary components that become possibly the most important factor in this complex is race. The way that the media invest more energy making articles about African Americans as culprits rather than the numerous different races that could have likewise done the same crimes is absurd, we always see in the media police shootings and brutality against African Americans who have done nothing other than “being in the wrong place at the wrong moment.” With regards to class, the complex figures out who is well on the way to be rebuffed or the destined to get harsher sentences. Regularly, a rich individual would get a less severe discipline or sentence than a poor citizen, there are many examples of rich and poor committing the same crime and while the poor goes to prison, the rich only pays a fee. When it comes to the LGBT community, I believe the ones who goes through the worst are the transsexuals, which sometimes are denied even the right to go to their identification genre confinement. Furthermore, LGBT individuals, suffer verbal maltreatment, physical maltreatment, homophobia, and even refusal of human rights.
Part III(Ch08):
Please create a new post telling us about which theory of poverty you think best explains why people are poor. Be sure to also tell us what solutions and programs need to be implemented. Everyone must respond to at least five students’ posts and participate in the on-goingconversation.