Mass Incarceration in the US

This is chilling. "Todays prisoners are tomorrows neighbors." Let's do better for them and for our children. Thank you for bringing light to this issue.

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More on Origins of Mass Incarceration in Washington DC on my Page

Name a better alternative then

We commit more crime then other countries

Prison is just a multibillion dollar business and it’s modern day slavery. Rehabilitation is just a word with no meaning. It’s all about money in the end. The U.S only knows how to lock people up, not rehabilitate and help people become more productive citizens. I guarantee prisons only release people because they HAVE too

When the republioons are back in, they will be jailing your teans for life for secting.

Prisons are privitized. It is a billion dollar industry. A lot of innocent people are locked up because they have poor representation. I was locked up at age 71 years old because I refused to talk to the Feds without a lawyer present. Of course I am black and a minority.

very cruel and theres people in there for life for mild fotos of adolesents. yeh not wrap...

This video has done so much to change my opinion, I still think of it 10 years later. Hank we need a TikTok version!!!

The state prison makes you work with no pay. Fed and state have many ways to make money off tax payer and prisoner.

Prisons are making money. It's a company. And america gets to disarm the public.

“Punishment, correction and deterrence”… This is how perversely distorted the “justice” structure is, how wickedly abnormal the laws have become, a reflection of how unhealthy and grossly amoral the culture really is. The very heart of the ethical principles of justice has been thoroughly snuffed out, no longer serving as a service to administer mediation and remedy to a claimant/victim that is fair (just) to all parties, but instead as a form of revenge on behalf of the State, quite literally for sport. 

To clarify this to the American civilians, the US judiciary, in writing for the majority has asserted; “The US constitution does not forbid execution of the innocent…innocence is not enough to avoid the death penalty. The primary purpose of the judiciary is retribution and deterrence.” The judiciary has repeatedly ruled that government officials have no duty to protect the rights, lives, property, liberty, or safety of any civilians at all. Instead, the primary ambition is to mete out the greatest amount of pain, suffering and abuse possible upon civilians to acheive loyal servitude to the aspirations of the regime by all means conceivable.

Which begs a sincere and critical question, if it is society who is to serve and protect the whims of the regime, what exactly then is the purpose of civilians continuing to entertain this draconian government at all?

as a person in far freer europe. this is sickening

I went through the system as well, and lost my 20’s. I thankfully live in a state where voting rights were restored upon discharge, got a passport (yet to travel though), and can receive food stamps as well! And PELL grant (did three semesters of college even!). The only felons that cannot get PELL is drug offenders (at least best to my knowledge). Prison was many things, but rehabilitative? NO.
It needs a MAJOR overhaul, also equal to mass incarceration SHOULD BE the whole judicial process. How they prey on the poor and struggling middle class, yet the rich and other elite of society (or former cops and lawyers/ DA’s/ judges) just turn a blind to the other’s misdeeds whereas they’d throw the book at anyone else? Sickening…nothing short of it.
Never minding the equal protection we’re supposed to see and get under the Federal Constitution. In my mind? It’s been nothing more than glorified T. P. For the last 50+ years (at least). The whole thing of it makes me want to pull my hair out.

Well the military is having a problem with recruiting enough people to make the mental soldiers so these incarcerated people for whatever reason whether it be in a scam or not they're locked up with nothing to do but sit around and get more stupider put them in the military don't get you ain't even got to give him a gun but it's a lot of jobs they can do in military so us prior service people can go do to do while they hold down the fort

8 years later and nothing has changed.

Came here to learn about mass incarceration. Got about half way through it. Too many inaccuracies.

Stop incarceration in the US. Instead, tattoo the crime committed on the forehead of the offender.

Prison is a dead god worshipped in the United States ⚘🌚👍rest in the good news ⚘ okay bye

Easy answer: DON'T COMMIT CRIMES !!!

cause ur shooting innocent people i cant imagin how u can be so evil and stupiid to shoot an innocent cashier to grab some money to buy drugs, jewellery and sneakers

cause ur shooting innocent people
i cant imagin how u can be so evil and stupid to shoot an innocent cashier to grab some money to buy drugs, jewellery and sneakers

If it's so hard to be an ex con in America... maybe don't be one? It's your choice after all.

Who's doing this and what can we do to stop it? (i.e. are Christian whites making stupid drug laws, when addicts need help, not prison?)

People belong in prison for life. FU!

Um, pretty sure ex cons are eligible for welfare and food stamps. What's the point of imprisoning people if you cut off all support after release?

Not committing a crime is also an option.

usa is least free country on earth

People aren't put in prison for no reason.

This video was so well put together, years later I'm still impressed on how all points were summarized in under 4mins

This video is seven years old. Not a thing has changed. If anything, it has gotten worse. What is wrong with we the people?

Drug users should be rehabilitated not imprisoned. Decriminalize drug use. Violent criminals however...Lock up violent criminals. Make people accountable.Making examples of violent criminals is the ultimate persuasive technique to NOT commit crimes! End the Democrat agenda. Arm the law abiding citizens (that's most of America) Problem solved.

Need an answer what really stood out to u guys?? ASAP

Lets just admit that crime is a major part of american culture in the usa, just like sports or music; we try to get away with everything from speeding through stop signs to murder. And of course jail/prison is not going to stop such behaviour.

7 years later and the problem has only gotten worse

I wish you spoke on the effects this has on Black people as a majority.

Remember, it is not the courts sending innocent people to prison. It is you conviction happy Americans puttting other Americans in prison. You American jurors that believe, want, and hope all people charged with a crime are Guilty. You love to ruin innocent fellow American lives. Stop blaming the Judges, Prosecuters, Attorneys and Industrial Prison Complex. YOU American people that serve in jury are the Industrial Prison Complex. The Jurors deliberate and come up with the Verdict!  They are the ones who send people to prison...

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Wait… if a convict gets out of jail, he’s flagged for employers, AND he’s inelegible for welfare, public housing or food stamps? How the hell is he supposed to get his life back in order? It’s like they want them to be back in prison asap

For the really bad non-repentant you should do EXHILE AIRDROP over the Brazilian or Amazon rain forests. For murders and violent rapists, brutal sex offenders. Male and female.

For the minor 5-25 year sentances, bring back the option of the whipping post. 5,10,20,30,39 lashes across the back. Rawhide whip with beads. Then let them go because we need them working and being taxed to support the economy. And dont have felony if they choose the whipping option. They have to be hireable or there is no sense releasing them or they mope around unemployed and turn to crime again. Use your brain. Longtime incarcerated men cant help raise their children well so you are breaking up homes and making more criminals. Whipping post changes all that. Plus, its way cheaper. These guys get jobs again and their kids get discipline with less single mothers around. Whipping and let em go is a win-win. Only the devil loses......God had it written into the scriptures but you ignor them. Honest solutions were offered but fools dispise wisdom and instruction.

CORRECTION. A successful conspiracy to disempower, disarm, and enslave the American population is not a "failed experiment" especially judging by the fact the owners generate 74 billion a year doing it to us.
It's highly successful.
And its despicable.

Tell me how you came to the conclusion convicts aren’t eligible for things such as food stamps I know multiple convicts who all get food stamps

Very good, I don't write comments that often, but I think thats a good and important video and its important that a lot of people see it.