Mass Incarceration: Systemic Bias
There are Reasons Some People Won't Get a Break
Mass Incarceration is an aspect of the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC), in which the goal of incarceration has moved from rehabilitation (penology) to punishment, and financial consequences - negative for those arrested or imprisoned and, funded by taxpayers, beneficial to private interests – are a systemic objective.
The PIC is considered to have begun in 1973 with the signing of the "Rockefeller Drug Laws", and has broadened over the past 20 years to take advantage of immigration policy in the United States.