Mass incarceration of African Americans affects the racial achievement gap — report

[lilelvis]

How is it a 'big difference'? Both happens voluntarily. Drug dealing is trade.

So is sucking dick for crack, in some places.

 

[lecter]

So is sucking dick for crack, in some places.

It is what it is.

 

[HunterSdVa29]

not sure how this is ever going to change

higher prison rates leads to higher single parent households...

That leads to black women simultaneously being the MOST ENROLLED demographic in terms of higher education, with the LOWEST GRAD rates.....it's not rocket science why that is, it was the welfare reforms that added school attendance as a qualifier so people extend that benefit as long as they can.

That in turn leads to years wasted on government assistance, reduced future earnings, a likely shitty environment for the children, etc....

And seeing as not that many other male demographics are apparently trying to pursue that specific type of IR relationship bringing in differing views and norms into the culture, I'm not sure how this issue is going to address itself

 

[ConorChoked]

I think African American culture especially rap, glorifies that hood life. It glorifies womanizing and getting paid. Call me crazy, I don't care, but I think lot's of African American problems and why they haven't done better is rap culture. The amount of kids who are raised without a father is glorified in rap.

I think now in 2017, minorities have never had more rights and freedom and truly anyone can make it in America with hard work.

 

[Teppodama]

It certainly does affect the racial achievement gap. African American's over overly represented in the penal hard sciences. Pruno and Shiv manufacturing, the Economy of Cigarettes and lets not get into the physical sciences of max strength gain ratios to incarceration times when applied to regimens of lifting heavy.

J/K

 

[HunterSdVa29]

also, something I've always wondered with the 'single parent household' stats...

are they not counting the grandparents in those scenarios? B/c surely a large portion of single parents live with their own parents, which changes everything in terms of HH income, etc....

 

[ConorChoked]

also, something I've always wondered with the 'single parent household' stats...

are they not counting the grandparents in those scenarios? B/c surely a large portion of single parents live with their own parents, which changes everything in terms of HH income, etc....

hardly a functional household when mom is gone everynight til 4am cause she is getting crunk at the club, then coming home coked out with gangbanger boyfriends while senile grandma babysits

 

[Breakfast Bar]

Not sure how much progress can be made on these issues when the debate is around whether black people deserve to be in a worse state versus whether white people are racist.

Just focusing on what outcomes would benefit society the most and what policies will make those outcomes most likely immediately takes emotion away and at least points us in the right direction. It's clear that having lots of people in prison--regardless of race or sex--is not something that benefits society. You can eliminate the number of people in prison by eliminating laws that target behavior that detracts from society less than forcing taxpayers to pay for incarceration rates and the negative impact that incarceration has on future careers (and taxes) and family structure. To me, "victimless crimes" like drug use, gambling and prostitution clearly meet that criteria. You can also reduce the number of people in prison by doing a better job of rehabilitating them by increasing their exposure to positive things like education, mental health treatment, lessons on diet, finance, family planning, etc. and protecting them from the negative aspects of prison, like the conspicuous acceptance of racial gangs and people being raped and/or forced to take on an unwanted identify as a "bitch".

 

[moneyfight]

hardly a functional household when mom is gone everynight til 4am cause she is getting crunk at the club, then coming home coked out with gangbanger boyfriends while senile grandma babysits

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I think it's disgusting that Obama never worked to legalize marijuana. Him and his friends were major potheads at one point, so he knows first hand how innocent smoking weed is.

What if he was arrested for pot? He never would have become a lawyer, politician or president.

 

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I think it's disgusting that Obama never worked to legalize marijuana. Him and his friends were major potheads at one point, so he knows first hand how innocent smoking weed is.

What if he was arrested for pot? He never would have become a lawyer, politician or president.

Many black people got medical marijuana cards under Obama so he did a good job with that.

Marijuana laws are not the reason for the epidemic of violence in black America.

 

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Mass Incarceration And The Failure Of Black School Children

WASHINGTON—When “Debra,” not her real name, left to do a mandatory four-year minimum sentence for drug possession, she left her five-year-old daughter with her mother. It was her only option for care. Debra’s mom would be responsible for everything. Debra could only pray for a good outcome.



“I was heartsick at having to leave her but I had to go. I just hoped for the best and did all I could to stay in contact with both of them. I knew my mom barely had a high school education so homework was going to be an issue but it was just elementary school so I wasn’t that concerned,” Debra told The Final Call.

“But then my mom got sick and there were days when my daughter missed school, homework wasn’t getting done and now she was in the third grade. She missed so much school that she had to repeat the third grade and that just caused more problems. Her friends teased her, she was bullied and then didn’t want to go to school. I cried a river of tears because there was no one to help me with my daughter.”

For the first time mass incarceration and racial achievement gaps were connected directly in a new study by the Economic Policy Institute released at a March 15 media event.

EPI research associates Leila Morsy and Richard Rothstein found overwhelming evidence that having an incarcerated parent leads to an array of negative outcomes that affect a child’s school performance.

Independent of other social and economic characteristics, children of incarcerated parents are more likely to misbehave in school, drop out of school, develop learning disabilities, experience homelessness, or suffer from conditions such as migraines, asthma, high cholesterol, depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

“Simply put, criminal justice policy is education policy,” said Ms. Morsy. “It is impossible to disentangle the racial achievement gap from the extraordinary rise in incarceration in the United States. Education policymakers, educators, and advocates should pay greater attention to the mass incarceration of young African Americans.”



Black children are six times as likely as White children to have a parent who is or has been incarcerated. One in four Black students have a parent who is or has been incarcerated, and as many as one in 10 have a parent who is currently incarcerated. Because Black children are disproportionately likely to have had an incarcerated parent, the authors argue, the United States history of mass incarceration has contributed significantly to gaps in achievement between Black and White students.

“Despite increased national interest in criminal justice reform, President Trump has promised to move in the opposite direction by advocating for a nationwide ‘stop-and-frisk’ program,” said Mr. Rothstein. “While the chance of reform on a federal level may have stalled, advocates should look for opportunities for reform at the state and local levels, because many more parents are incarcerated in state than in federal prisons.”

The report found a Black child is six times as likely as a White child to have or have had an incarcerated parent. A growing number of Blacks have been arrested for drug crimes, yet Blacks are no more likely than Whites to sell or use drugs.

At the inner city school in Washington, D.C., where Nasser Muhammad teaches third through fifth grade special education, he suspects many of his students may have had an incarcerated parent at one point.

“If it’s the father that’s incarcerated, the sons don’t have someone to look up to as they are growing up. They don’t have the balance they need to grow up successfully. Boys imitate strength and power. If dad is gone they imitate the strength and power of mom. We see the aftereffects in the classroom,” he told The Final Call.

“Girls need their fathers also to teach them how they are supposed to be respected as young ladies. When dad is incarcerated, many think it doesn’t affect girls but it does and we see it in the classroom too.”

Ms. Morsy explained how the problem of an incarcerated parent is more severe and complicated than people have understood.

“When someone is incarcerated it means a loss of income in that family, even when released they can be formally or informally barred from employment. This loss leads a family to a range of problems: Increase in housing instability, more moving around, increase in exposure to violence, higher likelihood of instability in parents’ relationships.”

The authors advocate for policies that counter these problems by reducing incarceration, including eliminating disparities between minimum sentences for possession of crack versus powder cocaine, repealing mandatory minimum sentences for minor drug offenses and other nonviolent crimes, and increasing funding for social, educational, and employment programs for released offenders.

Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University, sent a written statement to the press event because his flight was cancelled due to bad weather. He’s not convinced by the report. Mr. Loury questioned whether the same behavior that got a parent arrested would be sufficient to help their children be academically successful in school.

But the report authors disagreed. They contend, “This growth in the share of African-American children suffering from parental incarceration has in all probability offset many efforts to raise the average achievement levels of these children during the last 35 years.”

“Although the share of White children with a father in prison has grown comparably (from 0.5 percent to 2 percent), the concentration in low-income neighborhoods of African-American children with imprisoned fathers presents challenges to teachers and schools unlike those presented by the relatively rare White child with an imprisoned father.”

The report concluded, “The problem of mass incarceration for drug crimes, however, is not typically thought of as an educational crisis, and it is an issue that educational policymakers have little experience in confronting. How educators can add their voices to demands for an end to this war is a challenge that we should all begin to confront, if our other educational reform efforts are not to be frustrated by unjustifiable criminal justice policy and practice.”

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/article_103566.shtml

 

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I wonder what the real reason for Mass Incarceration could be brehs...

 

[Renard]

also, something I've always wondered with the 'single parent household' stats...

are they not counting the grandparents in those scenarios? B/c surely a large portion of single parents live with their own parents, which changes everything in terms of HH income, etc....

I'm pretty sure they don't take in account extended family. But they don't take it in account for all races so you're comparing oranges to oranges. 25% non-Hispanic whites single parent households (who may or may not have extended family in the mix) vs. 67% black single parent households (who may or may not have extended family in the mix).

 

[HunterSdVa29]

I'm pretty sure they don't take in account extended family. But they don't take it in account for all races so you're comparing oranges to oranges. 25% non-Hispanic whites single parent households (who may or may not have extended family in the mix) vs. 67% black single parent households (who may or may not have extended family in the mix).

Which is weird, bc most social welfare programs take into account household income

 

[Denter]

Consider:

* By the age of 14, approximately 25 percent of African American children have experienced a parent — in most cases a father — being imprisoned for some period of time. On any given school day, approximately 10 percent of African American schoolchildren have a parent who is in jail or prison, more than four times the share in 1980.

* The comparable share for white children is 4 percent; an African American child is six times as likely as a white child to have or have had an incarcerated parent.

* A growing share of African Americans have been arrested for drug crimes, yet African Americans are no more likely than whites to sell or use drugs. Of imprisoned fathers of African American children, only one-third are in prison because of a violent crime.

* Research in criminal justice, health, sociology, epidemiology, and economics demonstrates that when parents are incarcerated, children do worse across cognitive and noncognitive outcome measures — and the incarceration is a key cause. For example, children of incarcerated parents are more likely to drop out of school; develop learning disabilities; misbehave in school; suffer from migraines, asthma, high cholesterol, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and homelessness.

[The reason America’s schools are so segregated — and the only way to fix it]

Those are findings from a new report released by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute that says the “evidence is overwhelming that the unjustified incarceration of African American fathers (and, increasingly, mothers as well) is an important cause of the lowered performance of their children” and of the racial achievement gap.

When parents are imprisoned, it is not only they who suffer, but also their offspring. The number of children affected has grown to the point that we can reasonably infer that our criminal justice system is making an important contribution to the racial achievement gap in both cognitive and noncognitive skills.

The report also says that educators should view criminal justice reform as a key part of school reform and join forces with reformers in the area of criminal justice.

Educators have paid too little heed to this criminal justice crisis. Criminal justice reform should be a policy priority for educators who are committed to improving the achievement of African American children. While reform of federal policy may seem implausible in a Trump administration, educators can seize opportunities for such advocacy at state and local levels because many more parents are incarcerated in state than in federal prisons. In 2014, over 700,000 prisoners nationwide were serving sentences of a year or longer for nonviolent crimes. Over 600,000 of these were in state, not federal, prisons.

[From Ferguson to Baltimore: The consequences of government-sponsored segregation]

The report was done by Leila Morsy and Richard Rothstein, both of the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit organization created in 1986 to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers. Morsy is a senior lecturer in education at the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, and a research associate at EPI. Rothstein is also an EPI research associate as well as a senior fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and author of the forthcoming “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.” A former national education writer for the New York Times, Rothstein also has written books that include “Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right,” and “Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...chievement-gap-report/?utm_term=.254f366da760

^Full 24 page report inside link.

Sherdog what is the solution for Americas epidemic of African mass incarceration?

Did the drop in murder and violent crime rates over the last few decades justify this?

Blacks commit a disproportionate amount of serious crime, are located where there is a higher density of police, and are poorer on average (cant afford a defense attorney) so their mass incarceration is really not surprising nor unjust.

 

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Blacks commit a disproportionate amount of serious crime, are located where there is a higher density of police, and are poorer on average (cant afford a defense attorney) so their mass incarceration is really not surprising nor unjust.

I believe it's unjust because of African culture being incompatible with European society.

 

[moneyfight]

I wonder why there is disproportionate mass incarceration rates in America....Hmmm....

 

[nostradumbass]

also, something I've always wondered with the 'single parent household' stats...

are they not counting the grandparents in those scenarios? B/c surely a large portion of single parents live with their own parents, which changes everything in terms of HH income, etc....

Yeah, the grandparents(let's be honest, just grandmother) did such a bang up job with the mom. What could go wrong?

This thread is retarded, and leftists are hilarious with their solutions to things. They think so little of black people that we apparently can't expect them to not commit crimes, so let's just lower the bar and legalize more of their crimes. Yeah, prisons are just full of unlucky guys who smoked weed a couple times and got sent away for life. That's why prisons are known to be such pleasant places full of nice guys helping each out with rape a stabbing. Racist whitey is calling them "gangs", but they're really just nice groups of friends doing charity work.

I'm sure the black neighborhoods that have started to pick themselves up will be thrilled to know that all the crackheads and violent criminals are getting dropped back in. No actually, even better, I think TS suggested they get unleashed into our neighborhoods. What an enriching experience for the kids who've never gotten to see 2 crackheads blowing each other behind a dumpster on their way home from school and taking dumps in playgrounds.

If you're a black person actually making an effort in life, it's the best day of your life if the crackheads and criminals get weeded out of your neighborhoods.