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- Cooperation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
If everyone charged with crimes suddenly exercised his constitutional rights, there would not be enough judges, lawyers, or prison cells to deal with the ensuing tsunami of litigation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social, and political forces that have made the United States the most punitive nation on earth. Perhaps they worry the truth might actually set the captives free.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color 'criminals' and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury's believing their word over a police officer's are slim to none.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn't be trusted any more than any other witness, perhaps less so.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you've acquired a criminal record, you can be discriminated against legally in employment, housing, and access to education and public benefits. You're relegated to a permanent second-class status, forever a 'criminal.' Inflicting this amount of unnecessary pain and suffering is not cheap.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020