. In Marc Mauer’s philosophy Mass Imprisonment, talks about the mass incarceration in United States. Marc Mauer gets into the mass incarceration of a particular race, economic standing with tax payer dollars, and how did mass incarceration came to be in private and public prison setting. Mass incarnation stemmed from the “war on drugs” and “get tough” policy. These policies were initiated by former President Ronald Regan and enforced throughout the 1980s – early 2000s, when George Bush Jr became president he reformed prisons with programs to help the formerly incinerated blend back in with the community. These programs help provide jobs for ex-cons and inanition made rehabilitation for drug offenders. During The “war on drugs” era individuals would get simply arrested for small crimes such as possession of drugs, using drugs, or distributing drugs, which did not help reduce crime or lower the recidivism rate. “War on drug” created an over populated prisons. What race was dominantly contained in these over populated prisons were African Americans. Reason for increase population of African Americans in prisons which was stated “At the same time, police increasingly began to target low-income minority communities for drug law enforcement.”(p.160). These minority neighborhoods were predominantly …show more content…
This depends on how bias the judge is towards females. Female prisoners have more programs that cater to them, such as pregnancy and nursing programs. These programs give incarcerated mothers time to raise and nurture their baby in to good health standing. Here’s an example of women and men getting treated differently, shackling use to be for both males and females, but since women that are pregnant get incarnated need to deliver a baby, prisons are not allowed to shackle them during delivery of a new born, due to high risk of killing the mother or