We oppose mass incarceration in the United States for the following reasons:
The United States has:5% of the world's population but 25% of the world's incarcerated population.Over 7.3 million in jails, prisons, or under some form of correctional supervision.Over 2.4 million individuals behind bars in US prisons and jails.Ages 15 to 29 is the highest age group incarcerated in US prisons and jails.Victims of Mass Incarceration in the US: Blacks,Poor Whites,and Hispanics
Racial Statistics in US prisons/jails:Blacks and Hispanics are over 65% of the US prison and correctional population.Black men are 6% of US population but over 43% in US Federal and States prisons.Black women are 3 times higher than White and Hispanic females in US prisons.Black juveniles are the highest in juvenile detention facilities across the US.Blacks are only 13% of the total US population but the highest in US prisons and jails.Victims of: Mass Black Incarceration in the US.
Implications: Increase in illiteracy, poverty and generational impoverishment.Increase in the breakdown of families, in single parenting and fatherlessness. Increase in HIV/AIDS, Mental illness and Suicide. Increase in social marginalization from mainstream America Increase in the breakdown of communities. Increase in community insecurity and breakdown of public safety.
Solution:Pre-prison: Emphasis on job creation, Education, Sentencing reform/ investigating the War on Drugs.Prison: Emphasis on Rehabilitation and Skills development.Post-prison: Emphasis on Employment, Training and adequate reintegration to reduce Recidivism.
At the end of 2010, two of the largest private prison corporations in America: GEO and Correction Corporation of America made close to $3billion.Warehousing individuals for profiteering at the expense of punishment and discipline is not being smart on crime. Click to Read More In:
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February 22, 2013
The momentum behind this petition highlights the growing public demand for a fundamental shift in our justice system. I appreciate the commitment shown by everyone who has joined this effort to address these systemic injustices.
Reached 100 supporters
February 22, 2013
22 Comments
Our correctional justice system is broken. Those who pay their debt to society in dollars, in prison and on probation are left with no jobs because the system does not forgive
Fund education not prisons! Also address the real issues of the disenfranchised and provide the necessary support systems.
We must stop this obscene waste of human potential that benefits only the corporations whose bottom line rests on treating people, primarily young men of color, like chattel.
As an ordained minister and a Christian social ethicist, mass incarceration in the U.S. is an educational, economic/class, racial, and gender issue. In my view it is also a pernicious immoral issues that all religious organizations, elected public officials, and non-profit organizations must positively address to stem the destruction of the current and future generations of black and hispanic children and youth. Joan M. Martin, Associal Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Episcopal Divinity School
The incarceration crisis is destroying families, the bedrock of our society and the tradition in which we have raised our children. Too many children are being handicapped in their social and emotional growth into productive citizens by the mass imprisonment of their parents for crimes or allegations that elsewhere do not result in their being removed from their families.
end this madness!
I applaud this campaign's main initiative of educating and bringing to the light what has for long been swept under the rug or kept hidden inside of drawer whose keys have been thrown in the middle of the Atlantic. I praise God for this initiative because no longer can we remain silent because Almighty God has given back the keys that have been lost in at sea to purposely keep so-called "minority people" enslaved mentally. Now, it is time for us to break this new form of slavery, that is Mass Incarceration, before it becomes too late.
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We oppose mass incarceration in the United States for the following reasons:
The United States has:5% of the world's population but 25% of the world's incarcerated population.Over 7.3 million in jails, prisons, or under some form of correctional supervision.Over 2.4 million individuals behind bars in US prisons and jails.Ages 15 to 29 is the highest age group incarcerated in US prisons and jails.Victims of Mass Incarceration in the US: Blacks,Poor Whites,and Hispanics
Racial Statistics in US prisons/jails:Blacks and Hispanics are over 65% of the US prison and correctional population.Black men are 6% of US population but over 43% in US Federal and States prisons.Black women are 3 times higher than White and Hispanic females in US prisons.Black juveniles are the highest in juvenile detention facilities across the US.Blacks are only 13% of the total US population but the highest in US prisons and jails.Victims of: Mass Black Incarceration in the US.
Implications: Increase in illiteracy, poverty and generational impoverishment.Increase in the breakdown of families, in single parenting and fatherlessness. Increase in HIV/AIDS, Mental illness and Suicide. Increase in social marginalization from mainstream America Increase in the breakdown of communities. Increase in community insecurity and breakdown of public safety.
Solution:Pre-prison: Emphasis on job creation, Education, Sentencing reform/ investigating the War on Drugs.Prison: Emphasis on Rehabilitation and Skills development.Post-prison: Emphasis on Employment, Training and adequate reintegration to reduce Recidivism.
At the end of 2010, two of the largest private prison corporations in America: GEO and Correction Corporation of America made close to $3billion.Warehousing individuals for profiteering at the expense of punishment and discipline is not being smart on crime. Click to Read More In:
Updates
February 22, 2013
The momentum behind this petition highlights the growing public demand for a fundamental shift in our justice system. I appreciate the commitment shown by everyone who has joined this effort to address these systemic injustices.
Reached 100 supporters
February 22, 2013
22 Comments
Prisons for profit is not right. Mandatory minimum and 3 strikes for non violent crimes. Drug laws that target black communities. There is a better way.
Our correctional justice system is broken. Those who pay their debt to society in dollars, in prison and on probation are left with no jobs because the system does not forgive
Fund education not prisons! Also address the real issues of the disenfranchised and provide the necessary support systems.
We must stop this obscene waste of human potential that benefits only the corporations whose bottom line rests on treating people, primarily young men of color, like chattel.
As an ordained minister and a Christian social ethicist, mass incarceration in the U.S. is an educational, economic/class, racial, and gender issue. In my view it is also a pernicious immoral issues that all religious organizations, elected public officials, and non-profit organizations must positively address to stem the destruction of the current and future generations of black and hispanic children and youth. Joan M. Martin, Associal Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Episcopal Divinity School
The incarceration crisis is destroying families, the bedrock of our society and the tradition in which we have raised our children. Too many children are being handicapped in their social and emotional growth into productive citizens by the mass imprisonment of their parents for crimes or allegations that elsewhere do not result in their being removed from their families.
end this madness!
I applaud this campaign's main initiative of educating and bringing to the light what has for long been swept under the rug or kept hidden inside of drawer whose keys have been thrown in the middle of the Atlantic. I praise God for this initiative because no longer can we remain silent because Almighty God has given back the keys that have been lost in at sea to purposely keep so-called "minority people" enslaved mentally. Now, it is time for us to break this new form of slavery, that is Mass Incarceration, before it becomes too late.
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Prisons for profit is not right. Mandatory minimum and 3 strikes for non violent crimes. Drug laws that target black communities. There is a better way.