{"id":3721,"date":"2013-01-04T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2013-01-04T22:30:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T03:30:28","slug":"the-caging-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/the-caging-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Caging of America"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than half of all black men without a high-school diploma go to prison at some time in their lives. Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today\u00e2\u20ac\u201dperhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850. In truth, there are more black men in the grip of the criminal-justice system\u00e2\u20ac\u201din prison, on probation, or on parole\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthan were in slavery then. Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America — more than six million — than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height. That city of the confined and the controlled, Lockuptown, is now the second largest in the United States.<\/p>\n

(From The Caging of America<\/a>, The New Yorker<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some tragedies receive more media attention than others.<\/p>\n

There’s a section of the article regarding the Bill Of Rights that some of my allies and adversaries in the realm of civil rights might find interesting. It’s something I would like to read more about.<\/p>\n

…Stuntz startlingly suggests that the Bill of Rights is a terrible document with which to start a justice system — much inferior to the exactly contemporary French Declaration of the Rights of Man, which Jefferson, he points out, may have helped shape while his prot\u00c3\u00a9g\u00c3\u00a9 Madison was writing ours.<\/p>\n

The trouble with the Bill of Rights, he argues, is that it emphasizes process and procedure rather than principles. […] Instead of announcing general principles — no one should be accused of something that wasn’t a crime when he did it; cruel punishments are always wrong; the goal of justice is, above all, that justice be done — it talks procedurally. You can’t search someone without a reason; you can’t accuse him without allowing him to see the evidence; and so on. This emphasis, Stuntz thinks, has led to the current mess, where accused criminals get laboriously articulated protection against procedural errors and no protection at all against outrageous and obvious violations of simple justice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than half of all black men without a high-school diploma go to prison at some time in their lives. Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today\u00e2\u20ac\u201dperhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850. 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