Pacotille and the Prison Industrial Complex
W. E. B. DuBois, in his posthumously published (1968) Autobiography, said “There is a desperate need … to oppose this national racket of railroading to jails and chain gangs the poor, friendless and black.” The United States has the highest level of incarceration in the world, with a disproportional number of people of color behind bars. More African Americans are under the control of the correctional system of the United States today than were enslaved before emancipation. Native Americans, in […]
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