50 years of mass incarceration in America | Rattling the Bars – Everything Law and Order Blog

Nicole Porter from The Sentencing Project joins Rattling the Bars to explain her organization’s new campaign to fight mass incarceration, ’50 years and a wake up.’

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45 thoughts on “50 years of mass incarceration in America | Rattling the Bars”
  1. The executed plan was to disrupt the Black & Brown Communities with Fatherless families. It's high time to disrupt the System!!

  2. Prisoners have it good here. Have you seen that HUGE prison they have in El Salvador? That's what they need here, maybe it would be a deterrent.

  3. Harold Rollins could not live his life as a trans-woman and still play masculine lead male roles. Maybe he should have pursued a career like Bruce Jenner/Katlyn Jenner.

  4. Thank to Jim Crow Sleepy Joe, there's homeless drugs epidemic and out of control prison population!

  5. WOW IM SO SURPRISED THAT YOU GUYS DID A SHOW ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED THE MOST AT THE HANDS OF THESE RACE SOLDIERS IT SEEMS THE INLY PEOPLE YOU GUYS COVER IS ✋ COLOREDS‼️‼️‼️

  6. Mass incarceration happen because it was massive amounts of people breaking the friggin laws that's why he wouldn't be in prison if you didn't break the damn law simple as that

  7. When I was in California Vacaville Prison in 1989 the man across from me was Geronimo Pratt, very intelligent and well read gentleman. I was transfered from Vacaville to San Quentin and never seen him again, I was released in 1999

    Elmer G. “Geronimo” Pratt, a former Los Angeles Black Panther Party leader whose 1972 murder conviction was overturned after he spent 27 years in prison for a crime he said he did not commit, has died. He was 63.

    Pratt, whose case became for many a symbol of racial injustices during the turbulent 1960s, died Thursday at his home in a small village in Tanzania, said his sister Virginia. The cause was not given.

    Pratt’s case became a cause celebre for a range of supporters, including elected officials, activists, Amnesty International, clergy and celebrities who believed he was framed by Los Angeles police and the FBI because he was African American and a member of the radical Black Panthers. Pratt maintained that the FBI knew he was innocent because the agency had him under surveillance in Oakland when the slaying was committed in Santa Monica.

    “Geronimo was a powerful leader,” Stuart Hanlon, Pratt’s longtime San Francisco attorney, told The Times. “For that reason he was targeted.”

    Pratt was arrested in 1970 and two years later convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the 1968 fatal shooting of Caroline Olsen and the serious wounding of her husband, Kenneth, in a robbery that netted $18. The case was overturned in 1997 by an Orange County Superior Court judge who ruled that prosecutors at Pratt’s murder trial had concealed evidence that could have led to his acquittal.

  8. The incarnation for victimless crimes. The Drug War has been a genocide war against a culture that crosses all races and religion. Killing kids to teach them a lesson for smoking pot. Still a open policy. Genocide against a culture of people who seek relief, feel better and socialize different. That have turned America desperate. From the law a bidding civilian except for the laws to control their souls. To do so. Takes destroying the individual’s Constitutional Rights. Starting with the USA 9th amendment of construing to disparage.

  9. all the company's that have made money from incarceration is disgusting look at the Clintons.
    it is beyond DISGUSTING ,visa
    access , rebock .
    shoe companies .
    the list is endless .

  10. That's great, now do a video on criminal trends and what those narratives are on mass criminality.
    Don't want to get locked up?
    Don't phck around.

  11. It is aimed at anyone who doesn't comply. Irrigardless of race. Cops usually have power trips that often are not based in the law as we know. The criminal rarely justice system is all about money.

  12. The US has turned the prison system into a for profit endeavor.The injustice is unspeakable. Nicole Porter is tone commended fro for her efforts.

  13. Don't you think the era of mass incarceration began with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which allows involuntary servitude for convicts?

  14. Apparently not mass enough there were 9 blc kids shot at a gas station last week but shhhh will keep the media blackout goin

  15. Yeah you people have your way with have no prisons no cops no jails I mean we already let everybody go now you can rob a store down the street and they let it go on personal recognizance for chrissakes living in the United States now is like living in a third world country with the you know just a bunch of animals running the streets with guns and shooting people and killing everybody and nobody gives a s*** you want to close prisons I don't think so I open how they build at least three more in every state

  16. Let me as someone who grew up in white America all your doing by having a conversation about mass incarceration of your people is confirming your absolute weakness because if they tried to do to white people what they are doing to you there would be no conversation it would be a immediate call to arms and the Mantra would be victory or death

  17. United States of America is hell on Earth for some folks. United States of America is failing for the wrong reasons for example racism and capitalism is contrary to the word of God folks are treating each others not as they want to be treated but oppress those of no value to you.

  18. Yeah a country that's so proud that they have an incarceration rate that higher than South Africa's was during the time of Apartheid.

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