Sentences with phrase «resulting mass incarceration»

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They both spoke of the need to end the war on drugs and the mass incarceration that is, in part, a result of it.

I have a specific audience in mind — people who care deeply about racial justice but who, for any number of reasons, do not yet appreciate the magnitude faced by communities of color as a result of mass incarceration... (and) those who have been struggling to persuade their friends, neighbors, relatives, teachers, co-workers, or political representatives... but who have lacked the facts and data to back up their claims.

Through video, sculpture, photography and text, Sable Elyse Smith probes the trauma of incarceration as it has related to her own family and history, and the ways these same traumas have been writ - large in America as a result of mass incarceration.

... in this era of mass incarceration — when our nation's prison population has quintupled in a few decades partly as a result of the war on drugs and the «get tough» movement — these [jury] rights are, for the overwhelming majority of people hauled into courtrooms across America, theoretical.

The result was three decades of mass incarceration, fueled by mandatory sentencing schemes, and the abolition of release - readiness determining parole boards.