Protests Fueled by Incarceration Anger
June 4, 2020
Among the reasons behind the protests set off by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, people of color have long been angry about their disproportionate likelihood of being imprisoned, as “the rise of mass incarceration over the last half-century has turned imprisonment into a dominant feature of modern life for black Americans,” a New York Times article says. Issues has examined this dilemma in a special series that proposed ways to reduce the impact of mass incarceration on communities of color and shrink overall incarceration rates while still protecting the public.