Frequently Asked Questions
What is mass incarceration?
Mass incarceration is a term used by historians and sociologists to describe the substantial increase in the number of incarcerated people mainly among young, African American men living in neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage in the United States’ prisons over the past forty years.
How are families of the incarcerated effected?
Studies show that the growth in incarceration of men with children contributes to higher rates of homelessness among black children in particular by thinning family finances and placing additional strains on mothers.
How are incarcerated individuals taken advantage of?
Often times incarcerated individuals and their families are overcharged by attorneys who sometimes perform usefulness and unnecessary actions to simply profit off of the inmates ignorance. Furthermore inmates can become easily ignored and tossed around by the system as many are today.
What are the ethnic and gender stats of the incarcerated?
According to the 2010 census, whites account for thirty nine percent of the incarcerated while Hispanics account for just nineteen percent and blacks forty percent.
