Visible Voices Meeting - "The New Jim Crow"
Date:
Wed, 08/11/2010 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
We will watch a DVD of the July Black Star Project talk by Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. What are the real reasons for the explosion in incarceration? Why does she call this a racial caste system? How does this affect us, our families and our communtiy? And what can we do about it? Refreshments will be served.
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- More than 16,000 women go to jail annually in Cook County Jail and about 82% are mothers.
- About 80% of women detained at Cook County Jail are charged with non-violent crimes and only 1.8% of the 3,100 women admitted to Illinois prisons in 2009 were classified as a high security risk.
Because children need their mothers.
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