Thought + Action = ?: Part 2, Rundown

This country has a long history of white people treating others like property. White men may have gotten the ball rolling, but white women let it go by.

Locking up a quarter of the population did not just happen overnight. Criminalization has been used to strip away freedoms slowly over time in order to allow a select group to control another.

Without poverty mass incarceration would be impossible. Resources are taken from the disadvantaged in order to make it harder for them to achieve equity, thus perpetuating an endless income stream via the prison pipeline.

Policies have been slowly enacted that may not seem like a big deal to people they did not affect, but have gradually enabled the government to legally lock up people for money.

American economics is based off of the rich exploiting the poor. This is done by forcing as much free labor as possible from society.

Without access to education, healthcare, or a cost of living adjustment how can the poor overcome those who would have them jailed for not having enough money?

Thought + Action = ? is inspired by the TV show Dear White People

Links for Thought + Action = ?, Parts 1 - 4:

1. New Orleans Police Appear to Use Surveillance to Initiate Investigations

2. The Truth About Juvenile Crime in New Orleans

3. Letters: Plan to experiment on Louisiana inmates is disturbing; implants not approved by FDA

4. Is ‘Abolish Prisons’ the Next Frontier in Criminal Justice?

5. Dozens of ICE Detainees Were Pepper-Sprayed by Guards for Protesting at a Louisiana Jail

6. Breaking: Immigrants Pepper Sprayed and Possible Beatings Inside ICE Bossier Parish Detention Facility

7. Asylum Seekers Housed at Louisiana Private Prison Named in Abuse Scandal

8. People Are Trying To Donate To Detained Migrants. Border Patrol Won't Accept It

9. Hundreds of Louisiana inmates held in isolation, called 'torture,' for more than a year, reform group says

10. A firsthand report of ‘inhumane conditions’ at a migrant children’s detention facility

11. ‘There Is a Stench’: Soiled Clothes and No Baths for Migrant Children at a Texas Center

12. Leaked photo shows mass trial with 37 accused unauthorized immigrants — shackled hand and foot — being processed all at once

13. Lawyers say children are going weeks without adequate food and sanitation at border detention site

14. Multiple Health Crises Break Out Among ICE Detention Centers

15. Trump Administration Argues Detained Migrant Children Don’t Need Toothbrushes, Soap

16. US opens new mass facility in Texas for migrant children

17. Trump Administration to Hold Migrant Children at Base That Served as WWII Japanese Internment Camp

18. Camp is Always a Bad Idea: An Op-Ed

19. Bank of America Will Stop Financing Private Prisons and Immigrant Detention Companies

20. 4 Arizona Women Convicted for Leaving Water for Migrants

21. Federal prisons must now provide free tampons and pads to incarcerated women

22. South Florida felons owe a billion dollars in fines — and that will affect their ability to vote

23. How a 1992 Rent-A-Center contract and an outdated warrant landed a man in the Orleans jail

24. Pa. Judge Sentenced To 28 Years In Massive Juvenile Justice Bribery Scandal

25. Criminal Justice Facts

26. How Mass Incarceration Takes a Toll on the Environment

27. The Connection Between Mass Incarceration and Environmental Justice