CLUSTER 20B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Angela Davis, Involuntary Servitude, Thirteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
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How can prison education and the arts end mass incarceration. The nerve to call it the "land of the free" 30% mentally ill- more than mental health institutions. Poor people of color are most likely to be incarcerated. Juvenile prison rates are high even when crime rates are down. 7-8 million in jail, prison, on parole and probation. Blacks are incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites. Blacks and latinx make up approc 32% of the us population but 56% of all incarcerated. "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the pary shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the united. States, or any place subject to their justification" 13th amendment. Legal justification to maintain the structures of slavery in the prison industrial complex. Angela davis develops her web dubois "abolition democracy" in her work by the same name.
