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Black Woman Health Disparities.

There is concrete, inferior care that physicians give their Black patients. The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) reported that minority persons are less likely than white persons to be given appropriate cardiac care, to receive kidney dialysis or transplants, and to receive the best treatments for stroke, cancer, or AIDS.

Financial Incentive to Arrest.

The number of annual drug arrests more than tripled between 1980 and 2005, as drug sweeps and suspicion-less stops and searches proceed in record numbers. However, drug use and abuse was on the decline, not rise when the War on Drugs began.

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Jim Crow & The Evolution of Mass Incarceration

Named after a Black minstrel show character, the laws—which existed for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until 1968—were meant to marginalize African Americans by denying them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education or other opportunities.

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Labeled a Felon

The United States stands alone among modern democracies in stripping voting rights from millions of citizens based on criminal convictions. Across the country, states impose varying felony disenfranchisement. As of 2016, 6.1 million Americans were prohibited from voting due to laws that disenfranchise citizens convicted of felony offenses.

Police Tactics : Stop & Frisk

When police act in a way that would make a reasonable person feel not free to leave, for example, by ordering you to stop or physically halting you, that is considered a “stop” under the Fourth Amendment. A frisk occurs when the police pat or sweep the outside of someone’s clothes to check if they have weapons.

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Plea Bargaining

A plea bargain is an agreement wherein the defendant pleads guilty to a crime, usually a lesser crime than the original charge, and as a result, waives his or her right to a jury trial. What is typically understood as a strategic opportunity to avoid longer sentencing is a tool used to sustain mass incarceration through a prioritization of efficiency that strips defendants of legal protection.

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Police Tactics : Search & Seizure

EMT and aspiring nurse Breonna Taylor, 26, was shot to death by police in her own home on March 13. In what’s been described as a “botched raid,” officers barged into Taylor’s apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, as she lay sleeping, and fired multiple rounds. Taylor was shot eight times by police. 

School-To-Prison Pipeline

A disturbing national trend wherein children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Many of these children have learning disabilities or histories of poverty, abuse, or neglect, and would benefit from additional educational and counseling services. Instead, they are isolated, punished, and pushed out.

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