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Tag Archives: hyperincarceration
Journey Through Crime, Justice & Literature, Part IV
I began writing this fourth and “final” installment of “Journey Through Crime, Justice & Literature” on Martin Luther King Day. I re-read Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (16 April 1963), not for purposes of this series, but on this … Continue reading
Posted in Justice Chronicles, Literature & Cultural Criticism, Streets of Rage
Tagged 13th, 13th Amendment, Alexis de Tocqueville, Ava DuVernay, Black Codes, Charles Hynes, Conviction Integrity Unit, Darryl Alston, De Profundis, Draft Riots of 1863, Equal Justice Initiative, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Growing Up, Gustave De Beaumont, Hillary Clinton, hyperincarceration, Johnson Crime Commission, Jonathan Fleming, Kenneth P. Thompson, Letter from Birmingham Jail, life sentences, Loic Wacquant, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Mass Incarceration, Michael G. Pass, Nuremberg, Oscar Wilde, Post-Reconstruction, prison industrial complex, raising black boys, Reconstruction, Red Summer, Richard Nixon, Rosewood massacre, Sara Mayeux, school-to-prison pipeline, Slavery, The House of the Dead, Tulsa Race Riot, urban decay, war on crime, War on Drugs
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Journey Through Crime, Justice & Literature, Part III
Continued… (If you missed the second installment, then click here: Journey Through Crime, Justice & Literature, Part II) The modern War on Crime, as we know it, was inaugurated with Richard Nixon’s campaign for the presidency in 1968. Nixon declared … Continue reading
Posted in Justice Chronicles, Literature & Cultural Criticism, Politics & Public Affairs
Tagged Abel Meeropol, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexis de Tocqueville, Attica Correctional Facility, Attica Rebellion, Billie Holiday, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Class, De Profundis, Democracy in America, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Great Society, Gustave De Beaumont, Hudson Valley Black Press, hyperincarceration, Loic Wacquant, Medellin Cartel, Michelle Alexander, Nelson Rockefeller, News on a Kidnapping, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Oscar Wilde, prison industrial complex, race, revanchist America, Reynold's Magazine, Richard Nixon, Strange Fruit, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Four Zoas, The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, The House of the Dead, The New Jim Crow, The United States Penitentiary System and its Application in France, war on crime, War on Drugs, Watergate, William Blake
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The “new” Jim Crow is as old as the Union
Ever have a “Eureka!” moment? During my legal research in the early 1980’s, I came across something that, beyond a reasonable doubt, confirmed what people had been talking about without much evidence, beyond the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics & Public Affairs, Race, History & American Society
Tagged 13th Amendment, Alexis de Tocqueville, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Brown v. Board of Education, Democracy in America, Emancipation Proclamation, Gustave De Beaumont, hyperincarceration, Martin Luther King Jr., Mass Incarceration, Michelle Alexander, On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application in France, Slave Codes, Slavery, The New Jim Crow
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The Three Pillars of American Society: Slavery, Segregation, and Hyperincarceration
America stands on three pillars: slavery, segregation, and hyperincarceration (incorrectly referred to as “mass incarceration”). These “pillars” implicate and impact mostly Black people, but also all people living in America or dreaming about coming to America. In fact, the U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in Justice Chronicles, Politics & Public Affairs, Race, History & American Society, Streets of Rage
Tagged Angela Davis, Are prisons obsolete?, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Brown v. Board of Education, Charles E. Silberman, Confederacy, Criminal Violence Criminal Justice, Declaration of Independence, George Jackson, George Wallace, hyperincarceration, Jessica Mitford, Kind & Usual Punishment: The Prison Business, life sentences, Loic Wacquant, Mario Cuomo, Plessy v. Ferguson, Segregation, Slavery, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, Southland
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Reconstruction Revisited
This book is, for the most part, unknown, even among history buffs, as I am. (I actually stumbled upon it more than 30 years ago. Someone had placed it among the trash!) This book though covers one of the most … Continue reading
ABRACADABRA! Or Notes on the War on Crime, Redux
In 1989 I wrote an award-winning essay, “ABRACADABRA! Or Notes on the War on Crime.” In it I mentioned those magic words crimefighting politicians would utter as the solution to the “crime problem”: “more police, more prisons, longer prison terms.” … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Justice & Punishment, Justice Chronicles, Politics & Public Affairs, Streets of Rage
Tagged Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Bill Clinton, crime, Derek Chauvin, Donald Trump, George Floyd, George H.W. Bush, hyperincarceration, Loic Wacquant, Martin Luther King Jr., Mass Incarceration, police involved shooting, raising black boys, Ronald Reagan
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Death of a Kingmaker
William C. Thompson Sr. passed away on Christmas Eve, a belated gift to the thousands of people who were railroaded under his judicial watch when he was the Administrative Judge in Kings County Supreme Court. The praises have been pouring … Continue reading
Willie Lynch, On Language
I am a self-styled language cop, especially as it relates to criminal justice language, how it has been used not only to dehumanize and stigmatize people with criminal justice involvement, but also to control the narrative, how such people with … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Justice & Punishment, Education & Teaching, Justice Chronicles
Tagged criminal justice language, Denmark Vesey, Eddie Ellis, French Revolution, Gabriel Prosser, Haitian Revolution, hyperincarceration, Mass Incarceration, Nat Turner, Slavery, The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of a Slave, Willie Lynch, Willie Lynch Letter
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