CAS SO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Economic Ideology, New Prison, Neoliberalism
2 Jan 2017
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Racial stratification = system where distinct races are recognized and some or one race is seen and treated as superior: privileges (such as political) or resources (such as economic) are usually distributed along racial lines but not necessarily. Prisons the civic death of incarcerated (wacquant pdf) o three forms of exclusion of prisoners from society. Prisoners are denied access to valued cultural capital inmates are unable to get higher education. Because you are not qualified to get loans for school. Prisoners are systematically excluded from social redistribution and public aid laws deny welfare payments. Convicts are banned from political participation via criminal disenfranchisement. Not just about race but historical race as well. Many people live a life in and out of jail, on watch or on probation once they are released. Penal big government increases in funding for jails, spent about 70 billion dollars on the prison systems, 660% increase since the 1960s.
