AuthorAnna M. Teitler, Georgetown University A podcast series exploring the criminal justice system, mass incarceration, and criminal justice reform. See reformedpodcast.podbean.com for more information.
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AuthorGrace Lu, Claremont McKenna '23 “'Everything measured. A man twists a tuft of your hair out for no reason other than you are naked before him and he is bored with nakedness... He says this is the soul, finally, after the breath has gone. The soul: less than $4,000 worth of crack - 21 grams - all that moves you through this world'
-Reginald Dwayne Betts, “At the End of Life, a Secret” As neoliberal ideologies rose in the United States, individuals, such as politicians, harnessed existing American mythologies to advance neoliberal policies. The racially driven portrayal of ‘problem populations’ in the media and the villainization of deviant figures, such as the “welfare queen”, resulted in growing resentment towards individuals seeking welfare. The depiction of marginalized groups as undeserving of aid justified punitive policies that slowly dissipated the welfare state. The lineage of mythological figures reveals the racialized history of resentment towards marginalized groups, particularly the BIPOC community." AuthorCECILY BURGE, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY '21 '“A serious reformation of our carceral policy—one seeking a smaller prison population, and a prison population that looks more like America—cannot concern itself merely with sentencing reform, cannot pretend as though the past 50 years of criminal-justice policy did not do real damage.' In The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Coates makes clear 1 why surface level prison reform will never work. Reform, by nature, is unrevolutionary. It is impossible to truly change a justice system for the better without altering the institutional structures, communities, and politics that inform it. To make these improvements requires warring against the American disparity in unfreedom and in resources. And 'to war against a disparity in resources,' Coates says, 'is to confront a history in which both the plunder and the mass incarceration of blacks are accepted commonplaces.'..."
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