Why America Throws the Poor in Prison
Why America Throws the Poor in Prison
America built mass incarceration: the wholesale imprisonment of entire populations. Why, exactly, are so many people in prison – more than the entire population of New Mexico? That’s our focus for this week’s video: how a crisis of capitalism created a surplus population of former workers concentrated in declining cities, and how politicians and capitalists – instead of helping those people, and building a better and more just economy – built a prison system larger than any other in the history of the world to warehouse them. Chase Madar, professor of law at NYU Gallatin, explains.
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0:00 Mass Incarceration in America
1:39 The Crisis of the ’60s and ’70s
2:49 How America Built Mass Incarceration
5:07 What About When Crime Fell?
7:24 Credits
Because being poor is a crime. But above all it’s a sin.
I dont wanna go to hell.
Money, prison are big business
Our country went from condoning slavery to condoning incarcerating the poor what a country I’m embarrassed to live here poverty is tied to mental illness and lower mental ability. The rich elite get a pass for there white collar crimes
Why would I set foot in USA…. Modern day Babylon
The us is the most disgusting country in the world. This is caused by the radical right christian movement that has made it their mission to destroy the world
Being POOR is crime!
We spent $2 trillion in Afghanistan instead. Ex prisoners can not vote.
The corporate prison wants to make money off your taxes.
your forget to mention the riots in detroit that causes many damage buildings and business flee.
Because the rich can afford to buy their freedom.
Communist propaganda is always entertaining.
I have seen take police only go after the poor never people that are doing criminal activity that have money
Gentrification
Mass incarceration is modern day slavery.
OK what did you accomplish in the last 2 years..
2020 this video was made and America is falling apart
Sad but true all over usa if your poor your going to prison
Perfectly said and demonstrated. One day we will help the hurting and the family of people that were Delt a bad hand in life
1:39 – 2:49
Norway.
This cannot be true, the USA is the best country in the world to live in.😂😂😂
So rich people who arent obligated to pay taxes or face consequences can have their way paid for by the industrial prison complex.
That was an easy question.
*Prison for profit systems* keep incentives for criminalizing the poor and vulnerable even higher.
Land of the free….NOT
Yes,America cares about its People.🤮🤮🤮
Ten years ago I had the opportunity to move to America..Thankfully I did not.
America is broken,and when you say that to an American they go beserk,says it all
“Land of the free” my ass.
We live in a feudal system. Democracy died a long time ago.
not to mention prisoners being used as slave labor
Do the countries who incarcerate less of their population encourage accidental/forced birth?
So they can get room and board and free medical
We don’t…The poor throw themselves in prison..I was poor…went to school, learned a marketable skill and avoided prison altogether….shocking….Just don’t take what doesn’t belong to you and you’ll be fine…..My two cents…
US: United Sociopaths.
In Bus-Throwing our citizens we trust.
Isn’t it Republican policy that poverty is a crime? On second thought, it’s so easy to stay out of prison: run for President and call every indictment election interference.
i never understood why people want to make criminals the good guys. wouldn’t you want to put as much bad guys in prison? why would you want to be a victim of a crime?
America is dictature
wow
America is hilarious. You found your country on the basis of being religious zealots and then once you have the power and money you act completely in contrast to the values you espouse/force people to live under the yolk of. America is soulless and terrifying. Claiming to be the moral arbiter of the world while your country is so utterly devoid of real conscience. The world would band together and wipe you out if you didn’t build up the most frightening killing force the world has ever seen..so good foresight there I suppose. You guys do do killing better than anyone else
Between 1985 and 2003 the US executed twenty one 17 year old males and one 16 year old male. All were executed after they reached a certain age in prison. They stopped because of a moratorium. What is wrong with you people?
We promise everyone a dream of wealth in America…
America doesn’t keep its promise and people tryed to find their own wealth..
Never give the government power over community’s
China is our only hope.
Given the skyrocketing crime rate we should be putting a lot more people in prison. White people are not affected much by crime. I live in Wyoming the crime I hear about in the media might as well be happening on Mars . As far opening up the jails & ending incarceration. Every libtard city in America is doing that & it isn’t working out to well.
FREEDOM!!!
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The hedge clippers guy didn’t even steal them technically… the "owner" left them in that patch of grass by the road something everyone considers to mean "hey come get this free shit" which the guy did and then he was punished for it
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Quando eu penso q a única vantagem de ser BR é o sus…
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NO… America throws people who BREAK THE LAW in prison…
Don’t break the law and you won’t go to prison…It is NOT rocket science.
You can only expect people to carry you for so long.