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Dr. Heather Ann Thompson Department of African American Studies Department of History

Why Mass Incarceration Matters to American History and to Teachers in American Schools Yale University March 19, 2014. Dr. Heather Ann Thompson Department of African American Studies Department of History Temple University. By 2008 in CT : 19, 413 locked behind bars in 18 facilities

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Dr. Heather Ann Thompson Department of African American Studies Department of History

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  1. Why Mass Incarceration Matters to American History and to Teachers in American SchoolsYale University March 19, 2014 Dr. Heather Ann Thompson Department of African American Studies Department of History Temple University

  2. By 2008 in CT: • 19, 413 locked behind bars in 18 facilities • 1/33 residents under some form of correctional control

  3. So?

  4. Mass Incarceration Matters

  5. The fate of our cities

  6. The “Criminalization of Urban Space”

  7. Why now?

  8. LBJ and the Origins of the War on Crime • Law Enforcement Assistance Act, 1965 • President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, 1965 • District of Columbia Crime Bill, 1967 • Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, 1968

  9. What is old, is new

  10. A Revolution in Drug Legislation

  11. Lock up longer

  12. Criminalizing Schools

  13. The Fallout….

  14. “Million Dollar Blocks”

  15. Orphaning Children

  16. Joblessness and Poverty

  17. Welfare?

  18. The Long Reach of the Carceral State

  19. Rethinking the Fate of our Economy

  20. Post-1865 Post-1965

  21. Prison Labor

  22. CORRECTIONAL ENTERPRISES OF CONNECTICUT

  23. Brand new age of prison privatization for profit Example: Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), Wackenhut, etc.

  24. Urban and Labor Crisis

  25. So, why haven’t we changed this?

  26. Distorting Democracy

  27. 1974: Richardson v. Ramirez 2006: 48 out of 50 states have a disfranchisement law on the books

  28. The U.S. Census….

  29. The U.S. Census….and Connecticut

  30. Bottom line: The majority-white residents of 7 state House districts in Connecticut get significantly more representation in the legislature because each of their districts includes more than 1,000 incarcerated people of color from other parts of the state. 

  31. So what about everyone else?

  32. Why Mass Incarceration Matters to American History and to Teachers in American SchoolsYale University March 19, 2014 Dr. Heather Ann Thompson Department of African American Studies Department of History Temple University

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