A five-hour drive from Chicago on interstate 57 South will lead you to Southern Illinois. You will encounter towns such as "Marion," "Harrisburg," "Benton," and "West Frankfort." Arguably, the most notable town in Southern Illinois is "Carbondale." A turn on Highway 13 West will lead you to Carbondale. The town received its name due to the abundance of coal in the area. Besides that, the area is hilly and surrounded by woodlands. It has a population of nearly 26, 000 residents. However, because of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), the population can easily increase by 18,000 during the academic semesters. Of that student population, a considerable number of them are Chicagoans. The African American students have labeled the indigenous residents "Carbonites." Apparently, this label reflects an intra-cultural distinction. Like the most segregated large city in the United States, Chicago, Carbondale is segregated by race. Most African Americans live on the Northeast and East sides of the town whereas most of the Whites live on the West and South sides respectively.
My family arrived in Carbondale in the early 1960s, but my uncles further migrated to Chicago. Like many large agrarian African Americans families, we were part of the great exodus from the south. Some families settled near-south in areas like Southern Illinois while other families continued to places like Chicago and Detroit. Life in Carbondale was quaint, but poverty and the lack of a post-secondary education haunted many of us in ways we could not have imagined. Despite its size and relatively low crime rates, Carbondale has many African American males who face consistently ominous encounters with the justice system. High incarceration rates and race have a strong correlation in Carbondale, Illinois. .
I recall two of my brothers as well as five cousins serving time in either the Illinois Department of Corrections or the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Attitudes on Alternatives to Incarceration What other possibilities do you have except probation and parole? ... Then I ask, is parole and probation less punishment than being incarcerated? ... The biggest impediments on alternatives to incarceration are expense and time. Probation seems to be less expensive than to incarcerate, but is the outcome of the criminal going to be the same. ... Then maybe sometimes people stop and think that alternatives to incarceration is cutting down on tax payers money, and the criminal isnt going to just get off with no punishment. ...
Incarceration in America Is not an essential part of the American Dream the freedom from fear? ... Thus, one of the motives to incarcerate men for longer periods of time. ... The purpose of incarceration has had several motives throughout history. ... What is the purpose of all this incarceration? ... Privatization of prisons has created another motive for incarceration. ...
This vast increase in incarceration has lead to the displacement of many children. ... This paper will examine the current lack of policies for children with incarcerated parents, the effects of parental incarceration on the children, and two types of families affected by incarceration. ... Most of the policies that the states have involve helping facilitate visits between incarcerated parents and children. Only two of the 38 states reported formally training their staff to work with incarcerated parents. ... In many cases the majority of children with incarcerated parents have a so...
Beyond that, minority races are incarcerated at a much higher rate than Caucasians (Criminal Justice Fact Sheet). ... When one in 99 people in the United States are living behind bars, it is impossible to deny that mass incarceration is effecting many people (The Prison Crisis). It is important to note, though, that the problem of mass incarceration does not strike us all equally. ... The social issue of racial disparity in incarceration has given rise to other social problems. ... Johnson and Raphael hypothesize that this is because "male incarceration lowers the sex ratio (male to femal...
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It is these children of incarcerated women that unfortunately suffer the consequences of repeating the cycle. Research has shown that there are alternative situations for incarcerated pregnant women, mothers, and their children. ... This delay causes anxiety, fear, and discomfort resulting in incarcerated pregnant women delivering their babies in transit before they reach the hospital. ... The state of California has state programs that give incarcerated moms a chance to stay with their children. ... According to Wirpsa (1998), in New York 60 percent of women incarcerated violated drug ...
The Three Strikes law is a contributor to the United States problem of mass incarceration. ... As states began implementing the Three Strikes law, prison populations started to grow larger, which led to the contribution to mass incarceration. The United States has been facing with the popular issue of mass incarceration for a while now. There are many factors that contribute to mass incarceration, with Three Strike law being a one of them. ... The Three Strikes law is a contributor to the United States problem of mass incarceration. ...
The majority of Americans twenty years ago would agree that unwarranted, mass incarceration, torture and perpetual war are products of a morally corrupt society. ... Hollywood Bush-era war propaganda, widespread neo-conservatism, and politically propagated theological beliefs have glorified violence, torture of the accused, and mass incarceration of nonviolent drug offenders. ... Our government has sunk itself and its people into a massive hole of debt going to war with an idea and incarcerating the poverty stricken. ... Incarceration in America today has evolved into a business, instead of ...