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Mass Incarceration

Aug 15, 2019

47:52

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The Black Criminality Stereotype

02:37

Prisons - The New Prison Model

02:31

The Solution to the Inequality of Prisons in the South

01:41

Introduction

2min

American Express Financing - Don't Do Business Without It

2min

Eastern State Penitentiary

2min

Eastern State Penitentiary

2min

Eastern State Penitentiary

2min

Prisons - The New Prison Model

3min

Eastern State Prisons and Penitentiaries

2min

The End of Prisons - Part 1

2min

Black People End Up in Prison

2min

10.

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution Ends Slavery

2min

11.

The Impact of the Black Codes

2min

12.

Black Prisons in Southern States - The Black Codes

2min

13.

The Solution to the Inequality of Prisons in the South

2min

14.

The Concust Leasing System in the South

2min

15.

The Black Criminality Stereotype

3min

16.

The Negro Problem - A History of Black Inequality

2min

17.

The Criminal Justice System in America

2min

18.

The American Prosecutor

2min

19.

The Most Powerful Official in America Is the Prosecutors

2min

20.

Why Do We Need Prosecutors in America?

2min

21.

How Did Prosecutors Become So Powerful?

2min

22.

Former Prosecutors Take a Real Turn in American History

2min

23.

Why Is It So Important for Prosecutors to Be Tough on Crime?

2min

24.

Fear of Crime Drives DA's to Be Tougher on Crime

2min

25.

Prosecutor Impact

2min

26.

Prosecutors Help End Mass Incarceration

2min

27.

The End of Mass Incrimination

3min

The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and a disproportionate number of those prisoners are Black. What are the origins of the U.S. criminal justice system and how did racism shape it? From the creation of the first penitentiaries in the 1800s, to the "tough-on-crime" prosecutors of the 1990s, how America created a culture of mass incarceration.

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