We know the overwhelming impact incarceration has on our children and our communities.
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
So, in addition to utilizing an undercurrent of prejudice against Obama in 2008, Clinton has accepted money from prison lobbyists, at a time when race plays an overwhelming factor in sentencing and incarceration.
The Harmelin decision in 1991 and the sentencing scheme it upheld, enacted by the Michigan Legislature in 1978, bracketed the peak years of the "war on drugs," a public-policy obsession that created the massive incarceration problem that is overwhelming state budgets today.
As our nation turns to consider the overwhelming policy and political impacts of adult mass incarceration and its toll on families and communities, it's worth considering how the culture of fear, which is answered by jailing and punishment trickles down to children in disparate, cruel, and inhumane ways.
Too often schools where student populations are overwhelming black, Latino and poor are becoming "pathways to incarceration rather than opportunity".
The abominable incarceration rates among blacks are the result of two overwhelming factors: the persistence of criminal behavior by a significant percentage of the black population, and a criminal justice system that in many respects is racially discriminatory and out of control.
The grand scale that Morton speaks of authorizes the incarceration of hundreds of thousands of immigration detainees each year, the overwhelming majority of whom pose no danger or flight risk that would warrant their detention.
The shift in the incarceration rate among people of color has been well documented with overwhelming evidence suggesting the War on Drugs has had a disparate impact on people of color.
Mass incarceration has decimated minority communities, creating a humanitarian crisis apparent in the overwhelming proportion of the world's prisoners held on our shores.
