Nearly one in three young black men were under correctional supervision by 1995

Evidence

In 1990, the Washington-based Sentencing Project published a study of U.S. populations in prison and jail, and on parole and probation, which concluded that one in four black men between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine were among these numbers. Five years later, a second study revealed that this percentage had soared to almost one in three (32.2 percent). Moreover, more than one in ten Latino men in this same age range were in jail or prison, or on probation or parole. The second study also revealed that the group experiencing the greatest increase was black women, whose imprisonment increased by seventy-eight percent. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 45

Categorization

• XREF: These numbers ground the racial disproportionality in the causal account of deindustrialization; connects to racial-division-of-labor analyses. — connects to: Post-slavery prisons reabsorbed emancipated black labor through the convict lease system — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 253

Related

• Prison is an ordinary life dimension in poor communities of color (similarity 0.83)
• The prison boom was a way to concentrate and manage a capitalist human surplus (similarity 0.82)
• Alabama’s prison population flipped from ninety-nine percent white to majority black after emancipation (similarity 0.82)
• The prison disciplined convicts into an industrial labor force (similarity 0.81)
• Black and Latino people exceed 60 percent of the US prison population. (similarity 0.81)
• Black Codes inverted Alabama’s prison population from white to black in years. (similarity 0.80)
• California’s prison boom absorbed surpluses of capital, land, and labor (similarity 0.80)
• Post-slavery prisons reabsorbed emancipated black labor through the convict lease system (similarity 0.79)
• Mandatory crack sentencing drove explosive growth in the Black prison population (similarity 0.78)
• Black convicts could be exploited because they were still perceived as slaves. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Post-slavery prisons reabsorbed emancipated black labor through the convict lease system #expands (0.60) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 253