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Taylor Coleman

Professor Debra Jizi

UWRITE 1104

11 November 2017

Double Entry Journal

Citation:

LearnLiberty. Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System. YouTube, YouTube, 14 Jan.

2013.

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Racial inequality in the I wonder if by most people,

criminal justice system gets the speaker actually meant white

ignored because it doesnt people since they are considered

affect most people. the majority in all social

entities?

Whites make up 64 percent of I dont think there should be

the total population but only 31 more people in prison than there

percent of the incarcerated are of that group within society,

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population. Blacks represent 14 I think it looks abnormal and it

percent of society but 36 deserves the concern of the

percent of the prison American people.

population. Hispanics are 16

percent of American but 24

percent of the American prison

population.

The political and bureaucratic By this statement, does the

structure of the criminal justice speaker mean that the results of

system creates perverse the system are not the ones that

incentives. the fore founders had in mind

when designing the system? Id

have to agree and disagree. I feel

that they didnt expect for

prisons to be as big of a deal as

they are now, but they did

expect and plan on the unequal

distribution of imprisonment and

bondage between the different

races in society.

How could minority groups Americas false ideology of

hope to use the political rugged individualism prevents

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process to fix inequality when most people from logically

they are systematically over reaching this point. How do we

incarcerated and convince the general public that

disenfranchised? most people do need help, and

that its ok to help them?

Despite noble intentions, Lately Ive been wondering if

politics often does not affect the intentions of most politicians

the basic incentives of costs actually are noble? Outside of

and faced by political or citizen the race issue, do they act in the

actors. favor of the common citizen, or

do they work for their own

interests?

In 2010 over 1.6 million Does our government view the

people were in state and federal prison system as a wealth

prisons within the United gaining opportunity?

States.