It’s been said that when America catches a cold, Black America catches pneumonia. Certainly with respect to America’s incarceration policies, that adage holds true:
“Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, whether in prison or jail, on probation or on parole, than there were enslaved in 1850. And more African-American men are disenfranchised now because of felon disenfranchisement laws than in 1870.” (See www.readersupportednews.org, “Mass Incarceration of Black America.”)
