References Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow, Pfaff's Locked In, the Marshall Project, Vox, Common Justice, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), and more.

1. MASS INCARCERATION

2. What is
The “Old” Jim Crow?

3. What is
The New Jim Crow?

4. Mass Incarceration in
the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow?

5. 2012

6. Michelle Alexander at Northwestern University

8. 762
531
323
153
119
63 58
USA Cuba Ukraine England China Japan Syria
Prisoners per 100,000 citizens

11. 1970 - 2000

12. Why?

13. The War on Drugs

14. The War on Drugs
October, 1982

15. The War on Drugs
September, 1989

28. 759
7965
457 825
98,082
12,423
5785
20,483
1545 80
7477
13,427
32,088
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
Federal Bureau of Prisons - OFFENSES

29. DRUGS
IMMIGRATION
WEAPONS
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
Federal Bureau of Prisons - OFFENSES

30. The War on Drugs

31. “White Girl to be Tried as a Black Man” (The Onion)

32. Who’s the target?
What’s the “low-hanging fruit”?

33. 45% of non-whites are frisked when pulled over
compared to only 29% of whites, even though whites
are 70% more likely to carry a weapon. (NY Times)

34. Whites are 2.5 times less likely to have their car
searched when pulled over than non-whites. (IDOT)

35. Who’s Behind Bars?
White men, ages 18 or older

36. Who’s Behind Bars?
White men, ages 18 or older
1 in 106

37. Who’s Behind Bars?
African-American men, ages 18 or older

38. Who’s Behind Bars?
African-American men, ages 18 or older
1 in 15

39. Who’s Behind Bars?
African-American men, ages 20 to 34

40. Who’s Behind Bars?
African-American men, ages 20 to 34
1 in 9

41. MYTH:
Nearly half of all US prisoners are
incarcerated for drug offenses.
FACT:
the most common offenses are
violent crimes (like murder,
assault, and robbery), which
nearly 40 percent of the prison
population is in for.

42. Danielle Sered

43. The Core Drivers of VIOLENCE:
1) Shame
2) Isolation
3) Exposure to violence
4) Inability to meet one’s economic
needs
Danielle Sered

44. The Core Features of PRISON:
1) Shame
2) Isolation
3) Exposure to violence
4) Inability to meet one’s economic
needs
Danielle Sered

45. “And so we’ve baked into our
central response to violence
exactly the things that generate
it.”
Danielle Sered

46. What’s your ACE score?
ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES

47. As the number of ACEs increases, so does the RISK for the following:
(Risk for) intimate partner violence Multiple sexual partners
Alcoholism and alcohol abuse Sexually transmitted diseases
Chronic pulmonary disease Smoking
Depression Suicide attempts
Fetal death Unintended pregnancies
Health-related quality of life Early initiation of smoking
Illicit drug use Early initiation of sexual activity
Ischemic heart disease Adolescent pregnancy
Liver disease (Risk for) sexual violence
Poor work performance Poor academic achievement
Financial stress

48. Frontline / 7:50

49. #cut50 movement

50. #cut50
activity

51. Opportunity costs

52. “The Beast” / 2:02

57. “All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All
of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some
point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have
ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on
the freeway, you have put yourself and others at
more risk of harm than someone smoking
marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room.
Yet there are people in the United States serving life
sentences for first-time drug offenses, something
virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.”