The readings
we did in class this week every author is trying to find solutions to fix the
PIC. There was an article that I read and agreed with which was Abolitionist
Alternatives. This article talks about how the author wants to get rid of the
PIC and find other solutions not to incarcerate people. The PIC makes money off
of how many people enter the prisons. It also ties in to racism and slavery. How
it ties into racism and slavery the PIC incarcerates the people of color
because most of them are in the drug war or immigrants. The PIC criminalizes
immigrants and on the war on drugs. It’s the PIC ties into slavery because the
immigrants and the people that are incarcerate for drugs are minorities that
make supplies for the world and the inmates are getting paid less just like the
salves back in the day or they aren’t getting paid at all.
Some of the
solutions that the PIC can help the people that are involved in the war of
drugs is to make program to help people is to create rehabs, and facilities to
educate them. Also the PIC doesn’t have to incarcerate the immigrants why not
send them back to their country and let their country give them consequences. One
thing that really got to me is when student in high school even in middle
school kids are getting arrested for the thing things. Schools nowadays are
like prisons. I feel like if schools are treating kids criminals they will grow
into and it harder for students to be successful in an environment like that.
My own
experience I went to a school that the population of the school was white. That
school we had so much freedom we barely had any cops on our campus. Once I transferred
to Delano High that most of the community are Mexicans and Filipinos. The first
day of school at Delano there was cops and cop cars everywhere. It was
different. When I walked in.. There were two cops to enter the school. Most of
the time the officers would stop the guys that aren’t wearing belts or wearing
a color shirt and they would stop girls if there shorts were too short and they
would check their purses. It was crazy to me. The school before I went to
Delano High we had the privilege to go off campus to eat lunch but at Delano
High we didn’t have that privilege the students that did the principle would
check their records such as how good they are doing in class and they had the
privilege to go off campus most the rest of the school we had to stay inside
and eat.
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I think it was interesting to see how you were able to see differences in the school system first hand, it supports what you were saying and what the authors were saying. Do you think that the Abolitionist idea would work in the long run?
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