{"id":67870,"date":"2015-10-22T09:08:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=67870"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:32:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:32:33","slug":"understanding-mass-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/10\/22\/understanding-mass-incarceration\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding mass incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2.5 minute <em>Atlantic<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/video\/index\/404674\/enduring-myth-of-black-criminality\/\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> below, sociologist Bruce Western discusses the problem of mass incarceration. The practice, he says, isn&#8217;t just about locking up lots of people &#8212; almost 700\/100,000; more than any other nation on earth\u00a0&#8212; but incarcerating groups of people in concentrated ways, namely Latino and especially Black men.\u00a0This devastating to communities, relationships, and children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/09\/21.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-67871\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/09\/21-500x363.png\" alt=\"2\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/09\/21-500x363.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/09\/21.png 571w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/09\/33.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-67872\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/09\/33-500x329.png\" alt=\"3\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/09\/33-500x329.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/09\/33.png 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mass incarceration is a choice, Western points out. &#8220;We&#8217;ve chosen prison as a way to respond to crime.&#8221; There are lots of other\u00a0things we could do, other than the deprivation of liberty: restorative justice, house arrest, mental health or substance abuse treatment, community service, parole and probation, fines, halfway houses, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Watch it here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/video\/iframe\/404890\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2.5 minute Atlantic video below, sociologist Bruce Western discusses the problem of mass incarceration. The practice, he says, isn&#8217;t just about locking up lots of people &#8212; almost 700\/100,000; more than any other nation on earth\u00a0&#8212; but incarcerating groups of people in concentrated ways, namely Latino and especially Black men.\u00a0This devastating to communities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":67871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/09\/21.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}