The Mass Incarceration in the United States of America from 1865 until The Present Day

Abstract

The issue of abolishing slavery completely in the United States of America has always been regarded but deceitful by African-American people. They doubted the thirteen Amendment and considered it as a coded language, evocative, with hidden purposes behind it. It States the following: “neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall within the United States nor any place subject to their jurisdiction.”(US, Const. Amend. XIII). In point of fact, These words had one and only meaning for the Afro-Americans: “enslave the black again” but in jail time, and the justification for enslaving are simple, vagrancy loitering, minor crimes, war on drugs, get tough on them or any absurd other pretexts, or reasons. All in all, the whole matter of accusations, convictions, and intimidation are only intended to end up the life of black fellow in prison where he would be working from sunrise to sunset just like the old days. To break it even further, they were treated not less than animals, cruelly whipped, poorly fed, and clothed. Another way of saying, this was just another sophisticated term, form of slavery put in very well written clause.