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Racial Profiling and the Criminal Justice System


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             Slavery has a correlation with the prison institution. Slavery dealt with capitalism, physical control, and cruelty. Racial injustice affects the young minorities in today's society. I've came to understand that slavery is still in effect of today. The prison institution has become the new slave trade. Blacks are used for cheap manual labor. Prison companies have established an interest with private corporations to make money off Blacks doing reduced work, "even producing advertisements to bring in business and land contracts, touting prison labor as a cheap alternative to outsourcing to other countries" (Fredrick, 2012). It is a fact that the food that is processed like chicken, beef, and pork inside schools "have been made by a worker earning twenty cents an hour, not in a faraway country, but by a member of an invisible American workforce: prisoners" (Elk and Sloan, 2011). For example, I would argue how there is more labor jobs given to Blacks in jail than Blacks who live in poor communities. It makes me wonder how the mass incarceration of black males in society is so extreme, because of the poor communities many lived in. Many Black males who didn't receive jobs in America made cheap wages in the prison industry. Is it ironic that a black male cannot afford a job in society, but soon as a black male is incarcerated he has huge amount of work. According to Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) "In 2008, over 2.3 million Americans were in prison or jail, with one of every 48 working-age men behind bars," (Khalek, 2011). Currently, in America illegal immigrants and teens are racially profiled and processed under a caste system. Research states that incarceration rates between 1880 and 1970 extended about "100 to 200 prisoners per 100,000 people" (Khalek, 2011). .
             Up until 2001, the public judged racial profiling. President Bill Clinton addressed racial profiling "morally indefensible and deeply corrosive.


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