Essay On Slavery In The Prison System

Believing in something you can’t see it's what life is all about. When you have evidence of that belief this is when it turns into reality. Bringing me to the topic of “legal” slavery. I stand one hundred percent behind saying that the modern day American prison system is another form of slavery. The abolishment of slavery was said to be within the 13th Amendment, right? That’s what the government wants you to think, but in all reality modern American prison systems is slavery at its finest. With a gap in the 13th Amendment slavery once again found its way into America. The 13th Amendment states that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within

To first start things off the United States has five percent of the world’s population, but have over twenty-five percent of the world’s prisoners. To me the numbers for that just doesn’t add up. From 1972 to the 2000’s the prison population has skyrocket. Imprisoning many people that have been found to be incident. All because the government sees and try to make society see people of color as animals that should be locked away. The government might as well say, “ No, they don’t need help just lock them away and that should work. And while we are at it when they are finally realised we are going to make in impossible for them to get a job and no voting rights”. Making it even harder for a person of color to adopt and more likely to return to prison. More than fifty-two of released inmates return to prison according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. All because of the image the government and social media plays on African American and other races. These is something that we can see althrought history. From African Americans being called “super predators” ,“danger to society”, and “monsters” all because the government needed the world to fear blacks and if they in fear they can have a reason for the acts of imprisoning so many African