Today we interview Alec Karakatsanis from the Civil Rights Corps to talk about his most recent book “Usual Cruelty.” Alec talks to us about the inhuman violations and degradations in the American prison system that occurs because of a blend of capitalism and a harsh “tough on crime” culture.
It was really, RRREEEAALLY obvious in retrospect looking at my Arkansan public high school that it was this kind of bureaucracy was in place. This critique is better and goes farther than just the school to prison pipeline. The prison bureaucracy is also being privatized.
In particular I remember my acting teacher always screaming at the class to be quiet, but about 90% at the black kids in a 50/50 white black class. They had security just do random searches if the teacher got mad at their class just to make everyone feel small and impotent. Can't remember more than one or two times they turned anything up. All these teachers wittingly or otherwise were just conduits for white supremacy.
It was really, RRREEEAALLY obvious in retrospect looking at my Arkansan public high school that it was this kind of bureaucracy was in place. This critique is better and goes farther than just the school to prison pipeline. The prison bureaucracy is also being privatized.
In particular I remember my acting teacher always screaming at the class to be quiet, but about 90% at the black kids in a 50/50 white black class. They had security just do random searches if the teacher got mad at their class just to make everyone feel small and impotent. Can't remember more than one or two times they turned anything up. All these teachers wittingly or otherwise were just conduits for white supremacy.
I had my car impounded for not having a license back in the 90s... I didn't have a license bc I didn't pay my reg. on time...
Great points. The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie and a Joe Biden mask?
We have been under siege as the American people for a very long time.