HIST 12A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Attica Prison Riot, Watts Riots, Fair Labor Standards Act
Document Summary
Created in 1973, after the attica uprising of 1971. Ny legislature created new mandatory minimum sentences for drugs sale (2 oz. ) or possession (4 oz. ) at the minimum of 15 years/ life. This process spreads state by state thereafter. By 1994, all 50 states enacted some kind of mandatory minimum sentences. Explains how the growth happens in size of imprisonment. Flow: how many people enter the criminal legal system. Length of stay: how long those people remain in the system. Passage by the congress of effective and meaningful civil rights legislation in the present session, without filibuster. An end to police brutality directed at citizens using their broad constitutional right of peaceful demonstration. A massive federal public works program to provide jobs for all the unemployed, and federal legislation to promote an expanding economy. A federal fair employment practices act to bar job discrimination by. Federal, state, and municipal governments, and by private employers, contractors, employment agencies and trade unions.
