Updated: Aug 23, 2022

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?
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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
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
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
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
26. How Mass Incarceration Takes a Toll on the Environment
27. The Connection Between Mass Incarceration and Environmental Justice