Why America Throws the Poor in Prison
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- America built mass incarceration: the wholesale imprisonment of entire populations. Why, exactly, are so many people in prison - more than the entire population of New Mexico? That’s our focus for this week’s video: how a crisis of capitalism created a surplus population of former workers concentrated in declining cities, and how politicians and capitalists - instead of helping those people, and building a better and more just economy - built a prison system larger than any other in the history of the world to warehouse them. Chase Madar, professor of law at NYU Gallatin, explains.
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0:00 Mass Incarceration in America
1:39 The Crisis of the '60s and '70s
2:49 How America Built Mass Incarceration
5:07 What About When Crime Fell?
7:24 Credits
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I love the diffrent art style in the video
Dammit right winger why can we have a better world
Thank you educating
@@ProgressiveTruthSeekers as cool as that would be, it's how the country identifies us. Nevermind the fact there's only one race, not a black, white, etc.
We have to deal until we're ACTUALLY on a road to change. Otherwise it'll just be another thing people can politicize and weaponize against the country as another loss in identity and culture thing.
We literally have to wait till people are on board, and that probably won't happen in our lifetime.
Very good video!!!! As a black man born and raised in Detroit, MI. I can attest to the truthfulness of this video!!!
For me personally, I see the Prison Industrial System as another form of Slavery!!! Especially when "for profit" Prisons have a vested interest in finding and keeping as many people in jail as possible!
I also see this miserable Capitalist system with the Owner class and Worker classes at odds just another form of Slavery!! It truly is sad what has become of this Country.
That 70% figure is absolutely disgusting
Yeah that really shocked me too, what a messed up system.
Also hi geosquare cool to see you here :)
ayy geosquaree
fancy seeing you here! yeah. the Prison Industrial Complex is vile.
Just as vile as Wall Street and the military industrial complex. It's all about money for the 1% and slavery for the rest of us.
I'm not surprise ! Seeing how polices use extreme violence forces against black people
"They got money for wars but none for the poor" - Tupac Shakur
"They got money for wars but can't feed the poor"
They have money for the poor. They just dont give it to them.
He released that song in 98 and probably wrote it years prior.....still nothing has changed
yes
@SuperDave Miorgan he litterally had his own charitable organizations
Already outrageous, he didn't even mention Private Prisons, where this has become profitable by big corporation. And a bribed judge kept convicting people to get kickbacks from them. Holy shit how bad can it get? In the USA
only in the usa ? I think not.
it started with imprisoning ethnic minorities, especially African Americans. Prisons make money
It's not bad at all lol
@@RockstarArchivist You have more incarcerated people than China. The largest population on earth. You don't even have to hold the US to first world standards for them to look horrible regarding corruption and arbitrary legal systems.
Wait untill you meet florida man himself: Ron DeSantis
I served a couple of days in county jail once and was shocked at the amount of people in there doing time because they couldn’t afford their outstanding tickets. I met a dude who was being deported for jaywalking! It broke my heart.
And not to mention how awful they treat you in jail. It literally is a jungle in those places. Forget all your good deeds and morals in there.
You do now how they could stay out of that situation, don't you?
sounds outrageous! Here in germany you need to have done sth. really bad to ever go to a jail/prison. Sentences under 2 years are usually given on probation. And even most murderers only 20years in prison. The focus is on rehabilitation. We have a low reoffender rate.
He wasn't being deported for J-walking, he was being deported for being an illegal alien, J-walking is just how he got caught.
Anyone note that rich kids also smoke weed, snort coke, and drink underage, and yet the war on drugs hurts predominantly poor communities?
with money and power anything is possible
That is a feature, not a bug
@@TimEssDub poetry
For them it's an "opioid epidemic".
My dad always said "Whenever a white person gets addicted to drugs it's a tragedy and a failure of society ; but when a black person gets addicted to drugs it's because it's in their blood and their choice."
The mere notion that we are taught America to be a virtuous and desirable country while these figures were quietly ignored is detestable to the highest degree.
Indeed.
Bud I'm from American and I cannot agree more with that exact line of thought
The united states is evil. 40 000 people die every year because they can't afford healthcare
The death penalty along with police brutality is like modern day lynching.
America was formed by Christian heretics who didn’t like that the church wouldn’t let them charge interest or keep slaves so this is exactly what I would expect.
This NEEDS to be shown in every school and government office!! Enough is enough and "we the people" need to change this after all we are paying all their salaries!
Just stop committing so many crimes. How about we show that in every school
@@jsebby2284 You are the Perfect Sheep. If my kid grew up to have your mentality I would be genuinely ashamed of myself as a Parent. The fact that you choose to comment THAT after viewing all the info presented in the video, is stunning in itself. "Ba'ah."
@@deenanthekemoni5567 sounds like you're the perfect sheep if you're believing the video lol
@@jsebby2284 What an educated and rational response. Jesus Christ. 🙄
@@deenanthekemoni5567 dude look at your response lol. You just came out of nowhere calling someone a sheep haha. How is that rational
Professor Madar, sir, if I may. This speech of yours reanimated more of my morale as a lawyer than I would have thought possible. I am re-entering the legal profession and starting the last third of my professional career. Thank you for reading me a lecture I truly needed to listen to.
“Sean Worsley, a veteran, sentenced to FIVE years in prison in Alabama for using medicinal marijuana he'd been LEGALLY PRESCRIBED to treat a traumatic brain injury.” The first sentence of this video gives a heart-wrenching example of our cruel and inhumane criminal justice system.
yeah, especially when the traumatic brain injury is caused by their toxic promotion of the 'join the military' bandwagon they use on marginalized populations.
Good news though, the democrats in the House of Representatives unanimously voted yes on a bill to fully decriminalize cannabis :) the republicans unanimously voted against it.. but hey, it’s the most progress we’ve had in a while x.x
@Traiano Welcome He's no angel.
@@mikkosimonen there he is lol
@Traiano Welcome Nor anywhere .... Unless you accord angelic ideals to the living.. Plus the prison system in the US is proof positive that there is no God either..
I'm a criminologist specialising in corrections and youth delinquency. And I'm European. I can tell you that pretty much everything the US does in terms of criminal policy is the opposite of what would reduce crime. We're sitting here shaking our heads.
Many of us in America shake our heads too. There is so much here that needs to change.
@@KayossSZ Yes, I really feel for the many, many reasonable people living in the US.
omg i want to study criminology as well and i'm european. did you study in belgium or any french speaking country by any chance?
If we reduced crime, how would the prisons make money? Won't somebody think of the prison industry?
@@CP-ir3ft sadly no :( I did study in France (Paris 1), but I did law and criminology. I did the law part largely in France and the criminology part in Germany. If you speak English and can afford the fees, I think there are pretty decent degree programmes in the UK, Stirling comes to mind.
Thank-you for being a Lawyer on UA-cam who calmly and concisely criticizes the system you're working under.
Strange you didn’t mention the for-profit prison industry which has a significant influence on the length of sentences
Probably because it doesn't
Conservatives: "I don't like big government!"
Also Conservatives: "Let's put more than the entire population of New Mexico in prison!"
many american prisons are private (horrible conflict of interest) so technically they won't make the government bigger but your point stands. conservatives have no problem with massive government as long as it doesn't help the 'wrong people'. they cheerfully support the ever expanding police and military for example (legalized violence).
Conservatives: I don't like big government.
Also Conservatives: Let's give the police and military all the money the "big government" wants to give them..
Prageru: america isn't a democracy cause democracy is mob rule and it's very bad
Also Prageru: america defend democracy and freedom all over the globe.
Kamala Harris covered her tracks well! Slavery is legal under the 13th Amendment if you are convicted of a crime. Imagine holding back evidence that will set innocent, young, black men/women free, just to inflate your ego! Democrats love Jim Crow, they started the KKK after all! All these politicians want is power, why cant we just have someone chosen by god, like in the good old days...
@@ohno8589 democrats, republicans it doesn't matter, you don't win anyway. The game wasn't set for you, but for the rich. Whichever party won, the workers always lose.
"A black man without a high school diploma has a 70% chance of going to prison in his lifetime".
Holy shit, that's nuts.
That’s insane.
It’s disgusting. Because so many young black men don’t even stand a chance. Intelligent, thoughtful and worthy but born into systems that afford them no opportunity, school systems that at times literally do more harm then good.
I’m a woman. It makes me sick snd somewhat enraged to have to have the current end historical oppression snd harm my fellow women of all intersections face. But one thing is for damn sure, if I, a small framed white passing woman unknowingly had a fake 20 dollar bill and paid for it.. hell if even if I did on purpose... u got me fucked up if u think the corner store owner would call the boys and sick them on my little Becky ass snd force me to die in a stress position as I cry and beg for help. Police make me feel unsafe so I cannot IMAGINE how black ppl, especially young black men must feel. These are humans. My good friend from grad school who is a black woman has a little bit who just turned two. She’s also a social worker, so she gets it all to well along with her loved experience. She just moved snd is so desperate to live in the best sxhool didyiujxjkkmmmkkff
Mkkmmmmmmm wonder why
Yep.
@@sad-qy7jz "Oh, your grandparents couldn't afford to move to a different ZIP code, and neither could your parents, so you're stuck here, too. We're going to make conditions as hostile as possible so we can gut any opportunity you might have to get out while we paint it in a way so it looks justifiable. And if you step out of line once, you lose everything because we're going to have masses of police watching your every movement."
@@Kylora2112 pretty much. And it’s rlly the damn master plan because all these idiots literally will come up with the most elaborate conspiracy theories to affirm their existing biases yet a systemic ploy to keep poor people, poc, drug addicts etc on the streets and helpless is too insane for them to fathom. Like really they’ve got it made, the working class still arguing over whether they deserve to bePAID MORE, or if a disease that they’re vulnerable too is FAKE OR NOT and not even ready to touch these material barriers. I do think it’s getting better and people are opening their eyes and at least younger people my age and below tend to be open to learning ans channels like this def help combat misinformation but man it’s depressing sometimes to see ppl self sabotage
100% agree. We must not legitimise the abuse of power by the greedy and act on sanctioned torture within all our societies and institutions.
This needs to be shown in every high school in the U.S. Great video!
Our carceral system may be the most immoral thing about the modern U.S.
@@JETAlone12 Genocide of Native Americans, Chattel Slavery, Civilian Bombing campaigns...a lot of competition for “most heinous thing the US has done”
@@dudedaniel1127 "modern US"
@@dynamicworlds1 between this, bombing hospitals and locking kids in cages the USA is competing with itself for most inhumane action they can get away with
@@dynamicworlds1 The sliding scale of the "Modern US" is simply a means to exclude the less than flattering history of the US. Especially when the negative impacts still can and will be felt in every 'today' until it's properly addressed. Take the Confederate flag, the day the Confederate Union was defeated most would thing that in a "Modern US" the flag would have died with its bearers, to never be a banner American Citizens would fly unashamed again *Jump Cut to 2021 Jan. 6th* it doesn't really feel all that modern anymore.
@@CraftyxCrafty in context, it was pretty clearly trying to focus the statement on current problems we could take action on, not trying to minimize the historical record in any way. Don't be pointlessly contrarian. It's not productive.
L-LAND OF THE FREE? R-RIGHT GUYS?
"What? The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy"
Land of the free loaders.
Freeloader : Rent seekers and members of the capitalist class. They take the fruits of your labor and leave you with scraps.
@@spoonikle you had me in first half ngl. 😅
@@electricshocked0 Now something must be done
From here in Germany, all these big titles and myths americans attach to their country always seemed so far detached from reality, yet they are so engrained in your culture.
Like, how can you call yourself the "Land of the Free" if you literally have the highest prison population from all of human history?
The 3 strike rule was 3 felonies, not 3 misdemeanors and for profit prisons are what's keeping people locked up. It's getting out of jail or prison once you're in. Any tiny thing you do gets you extra time. This video left out a ton of info.
Breaks my heart seeing this video....
the part about prison just being warehouses for people the state doesnt like was so good
Also who the state doesn't want voting since we strip felons of their voting rights.
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
-former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman
I thought of how the British used to ship the "undesirable" elements of society to penal colonies like Australia.
Probably a major contributor to recidivism :(
Soroneir And kind of a vicious cycle and a win/win for the government and prison industrial complex. The fact that the problem is recurring means they'll have people in prison more than once.
Prison. Because the state is puzzled about "what to do with the poor." Not too many generations ago there was a theory that poverty was caused by poor people so the sterilization of low-income women was thought to be a cure.
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In 1999 I made the biggest mistake ever in my life. I left Australia and came to America.
I hate it here. If youre disabled. Tough you suffer!😢
It's the modern version of the work houses of Victorian England. The reality is that it costs less to rehabilitate these people who have hit a wall and fallen than it costs to jail them
' rehabilitate these people ' It is impossible to save people from themselves.
Excellent episode! This is such an important topic. The visuals in this one are just stunning! You guys are doing important work.
Love your channel!
Nice to see you here, Second Thought!
i like the second thought videos
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"How Capitalists Solved the Housing Crisis."
EXACTLY XDXDXDXD
Don't laugh. It could become a "solution" again. Question is, what will happen after the lockdown, after the forbearance and after stimulus-checks.
Very underrated comment
"how nazis solved unemployment"
By take away jobs from minorities and women.
Spot on
Some of the same politicians who proclaim to want environmental, social, and racial justice were some of the same politicians who promoted mass incarceration.
The social safety net in the US is so flimsy, a few years ago I got talking with a guy who'd been homeless and eventually got rounded up and thrown in prison for sleeping on someone's lawn or something, and he said it was the best thing to happen to him because it got him into programs to help ex-felons.
Well yeah you can't just sleep on other people's property lol
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@@jsebby2284 you should be able to unless it's inside their house or something
Why? Because prison in America is a business. It’s literally a corporation that makes money from imprisoning people.
It is worthy of note that it costs less money to retain a customer than to find a new customer. So if I am a company in the prison business, it's just good sense to provoke a current customer into earning a longer stay at the Cold Bar Hotel. It is immoral to make a profit from prison, just as it is immoral to make a profit from war. Private contractors ought not exist for either one. Corporations ought not exist, but that's another can of worms.
That is a definition of Fascism. We live in a police state with DHS as the American Stasi. Search DHS/Walmart.
Cheap Labor for the rich !!
@@johntremblay2201 and then blame immigrant for “stealing” jobs.
I thought we ended slavery? Will the prisoners get reparations?
Explain to me what someone coming out of jail is supposed to do for a job when no one will hire them? Our system is completely broken.
commit a crime to go back to jail! our high-end politicians with fat shooting out of their rich costumes can live in peace that put all the criminals out of sight. not realizing they are raising rebellions for their next generations.
Exactly. Prioritizing punishment over rehabilitation is immoral, not to mention ineffective.
add to that their child support kept rolling and fines and restitution as well as cost of supervision if on probation/parole and you get a recipe for recidivism.
The system is not broken, but doing exactly what it was intended to.
@@63saruman Ok I agree.
I never understood why this was happening until I seen this video and now it all makes sense... Good work Chase.
It gets way worse with private prisons who seek to produce ROI profits for its investors. We need to create more raw material to feed that machine.
American: The land of the free!
(Conditions may apply)
Yea. You can't be an idiot.
Good one.
@@peterj7631
Yup. You cannot be human because there are stupid
f":';-ing people running the so called justice system.
And there are too many people who are too f-"':"ing stupid and who believe the so called justice system makes any sense whatsoever.
@Kevin COVINGTON This is circular logic. Pointing out that women wouldn't be imprisoned in Saudi Arabia if they had not broken the law presupposes the notion that the interaction is justified.
@Kevin COVINGTON Get some drugs planted on you because of your race(conditions apply!) go to prison for 25 years and salute the flag!
I swear this country is full of blind mice...
I'm tired of calling this a recession,this is a depression over 30 million unemployed isn't a recession.
I think the pandemic has taught people the importance of multiple streams of income unfortunately having a job doesn't mean security.
Our biggest pandemic right now is our government, they don't care about us😭😭
Political parasite playing politics with people's life they don't care.
Stock are good but crypto is more profitable
My first investment with Mr Andrew earned me profit of over $24,740 US dollar and ever since then he has been delivering.
The editing is amazing!! :D
Thank you so very much...Chase
$30K-$50K a year per prisoner. Imagine what programs we could enact with all that wasted money
“The 23 years Bryant has served in prison since the 1997 has cost Louisiana taxpayers more than $518,000, Johnson noted. ‘If he lives another 20 years, Louisiana taxpayers will have paid almost one million dollars to punish Mr Bryant for his failed effort to steal a set of hedge clippers,’ [wrote the lone dissenting opinion in the appeal to the Louisiana Supreme Court]”
@Abnormal Wrench and it cost just 11k a year from k to 12 to educate, its a waste of tax payers money.
@@mikeaskme3530 Um, no.
@@Wicker_ Go play with your guns now. The adults are talking.
Yes. Death penalty by firing squad would be about 1 dollar...
"Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state." - Peter Kropotkin, _Memoirs of a Revolutionist_
based
We are fortune that Peter is not in charge.
Brilliant exegesis on this matter: concise, cogent and very informative!!
The things to add to this is that once prisons became privatised, the prison corporations lobbied for all sorts of laws that were written to guarantee a constant stream of "income" for the prison industrial complex who contracted out their services to the states that funded them. But here's the thing, many US companies who hadn't outsourced all their manufacturing to Asia & Mexico, or for whatever reason weren't able to. The prisons became a lucrative form of cheap labour, in some cases cheaper actually than Chinese labour lately became. such that some household goods, that say "made in china" are actually made in the USA, by prison factories, under the guise of "work experience", & the "made in China" labels are put on the items to hide the fact that USA exploits prison labour. And all sorts of industries exploit this cheap labour source, from household goods manufacturers, to civil contractors, to truck assemblers, of course with all the prisoners wearing shock ankle bracelets to keep them in line. And of course the prison corporations make huge profit from contracting out their labour services. This is largely why "Prison Industrial Complex" is such an accurate description, because its not just about building prisons for profit, but also contracting out labour or having onsite factories for American corporations or unscrupulous local companies. And of course this all means that the exploited American working class aren't just competing with the cheaper labour of other exploited countries, but the never ending but hidden cheap labour source within their own country.
The fact that slavery is still allowed in America in cases of imprisonment as per 13th amendment combined with the prison industrial complex...we are the largest Country in the world still enslaving people today and most people don't even think about it.
All the orange-themed animation in this video is phenomenal.
orange for the prisoners.. blue for the cops
Broke PragerU: we made one PowerPoint color palette were using it for every video
Woke Gravel Institute: mm new video new style new colors to match theme
If it wasnt 20fps lol
@@tonymagick Blue wall of silence. Freemason colors orange is a favorite along with black and white ( duality ) the other classic movie prison suite.
Superpredators who must be brought to heel? Hillary used the right terms but should've been chasing down the Koch brothers.
Tell your graphic designer I said "damn"
Very nice graphics, pretty high production quality
The corporate prison wants to make money off your taxes.
"That's just slavery with extra steps" -Rick sanchez
especially since prisoners are often required to do hard labor for basically no pay. lots of companies make a lot of profit off of it and it's genuine actual slavery
Technically, legally the US actually still has slavery in prisons according to it's own constitution. I'm not sure if it's even extra steps at that point. Really it's just that no one cares about slavery.
@@hedgehog3180 true. but also no one knows this. very few people know that the prison system is slavery... better spread that info so people can do something against it (disclaimer: I'm not american but my american friends really don't seem to know modern slavery, the right wing dictator "coups", etc.)
For more info on the PIC and the document and person crucial to mass incarceration: ua-cam.com/video/krfcq5pF8u8/v-deo.html
www.businessinsider.com/william-barr-mass-incarceration-1990s-criminal-justice-reform-2019-1
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San Fransisco Tenderloin district is so cosy, just want to go there.
Arrested for nothing, two and half years in court, charges changed three times, offered five or six plea deals, twelve man jury found me innocent.
Louisiana justice system is so corrupt from officer to DA to public defender to judges . This is first hand experience saying this.
"The degree of a civilization in a society can be judged by entering it's prisons" - Dostoevsky.
@James Huberty I hear what you’re saying, but I’m not talking about the prisoners. I’m talking about the prisons,. Why are there are so many of them in the U.S? Why are they are so badly run, and why are so many people are getting locked up in them for the most mundane reasons? North Korea has prison camps, but even that place doesn’t have as many people locked up like we do.
@James Huberty "There are so many because our population is so large, few if any are actually locked up for "mundane" reasons."
This is a demonstrable lie. You should stop lying. Lying is bad. I can't believe I need to explain this to you.
The RATE of incarceration in your country, PER CAPITA, is miles away from other developed nations. So trying to blame your population level is just plain stupid.
@James Huberty how? He made a good point that the per capita rate of incarcerations is far higher then other developed countries and you just insult him. We shouldn't just be locking up people for non violent drug offenses because that does not help society. Mandatory minimums and three strike laws do nothing but ravage poor communities and destroy people's lives. We should strive to be better and more humane than other countries, not miles behind them.
@James Huberty When he caught you in a lie, you resorted to ad hominem. That means you lost the argument.
@James Huberty a society that works asshole, punishment doesn't eliminate or di ish crime, an efficient society takes care of every one of its citizen and recovers them, spending less and saving people from the streets
If you put a petty criminal into a prison surrounded by hardened criminals you shouldn't be surprised when he/she starts "networking". Especially if he/she knows there's close to no hope for real job outside the prison
Hell, it's not uncommon for petty criminals to join gangs in prison just for protection because our prisons don't give a fuck about putting in the effort needed for rehabilitation.
there are tons of jobs that hire felons
I like the way you put it as network. It really is a separate society, inside our own, the society of criminals. There are many criminal "businesses" and "jobs" for those whose lives are already at a point where giving up crime is not an option,, at least not an option that they understand. Plus there are plenty of criminals that are never caught, and those are incentive for the caught to "improve" at crime. It is an invisible country inside our own. And what I find interesting is how literally those are our own people, those are the state's own citizens, who they should have been reasonably responsible for raising right, but instead they practically abandon them since birth and declare a war on them. A war on their own people. The data that shows a predominance of individuals of a certain background as making up the majority of the prison population should be worrying for those power, it should be worrying that they are not raising those people the same as others, it's such a basic logic, not everything is completely in the fault of the individual, life is not so simple, you don't write your own fate, and the government governs by being responsible over it's people, not by promoting a war against them.
@@joshmiller9783 Yes there are, just as there are tons of colleges that accept black students (with the right grades any will), just as there tons of ways to a life without using drugs, without robbing, without stealing etc. A lot of criminals don't know these jobs. They start living in a segregated society, and to understand life after prison takes time. I mean some of these, young especially, people in the prison populations in the US have no idea how to look for a job, and such other mundane things.
@@joshmiller9783 in shitty insecure McJobs with no benefits or unions. I'd turn to crime if that was my only employment option. But of course, that's what the plan is. Create just enough crime to justify repression of the poor by the rich.
Except in some places like Chicago, murderers get released without ever facing justice. New York tried also to implement a no-bail law but it resulted in a spike in crime. Also the point about blacks and whites without a college degree, you need to know what the crime rate is of each group not just the incarceration rate. Other than that I agree with many of these points.
Thank you, great presentation.
I love that you guys have such a similar editing style to PragurU, but it’s actually visually interesting and it has a foreign phenomena known as “coherent thought”. Much love
And citations, don’t forget citations.
And graphs with actual meaning.
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@@jaspervanderploeg6199 yeah Dennis seems to really struggle with labeling shit
It's actually visually much better than PragerU imo
He's like if John Oliver and George Clooney had a son who spat fire.
I thought he looked a bit like Mr. Bean! But who cares what he looked liked---it was IMPORTANT information.
@D H Ehmr... Not really?
I'm admittedly not too well-versed in Contrapoints - her "style" of content somehow never quite resonated with me - but in regards to PhilosophyTube? Definitely not a "liberal". You do realise neoliberalism is an actual ideology, centered around shit like market deregulation, right? It's only from the American perspective that they're even remotely left-wing...
Meanwhile, Abigail Thorn has on numerous occasions proven to indeed be anti-capitalist, and seek a post-capitalist system. Excluding her from the 'left' just because her content is more socially than economically oriented is honestly just bullshit.
@D H Any clear examples, please?
@@TheLostArchangel666 They don't have any. This seems to be a "leftist" who just enjoys being a contrarian and whose politics solely consist of "I hate liberals. That's it."
@D H
Yeah, they focus on social issues rather than economic. So?
Don't forget, it is also a jobs program for rural areas
unimaginable shame on the level of slavery. and private prisons, no other country has.
You obviously have no idea what slavery was then. What a ridiculous comment
I was about to write an essay for school. Then I got a Gravel Institute notification...
Amazing work guys!
You can cite us in your essays! (Teacher Approved)
@@TheGravelInstitute With this quality I’d cite it on my thesis
This is where you get when living in an oligarchy.
While still get told the "democracy" tale.
It's a constitutional republic numbnut
It's a plutocracy of oligarchs, or an oligarchy of plutocrats, whichever you prefer, numbnuts
Ummm...you can have Oligarchy and Democracy both...smdh...oh..and we are A Democratic Representative Republic...not a Democracy...perhaps you should take a Poli-Sci and Economics course because you seem to know shit all about either subject...your post reads like you are just parroting bullshit you read on social media...lmfao
The problem is that people who aren't intelligent or educated can't be relied upon to vote responsibly on a vast number of things. They literally have to be ruled or pacified somehow. The main goal of people who desire power is to de-educate and overwork the population so that they'll start to believe that they can't make proper political choices. And it works splendidly. If you don't understand and think deeply about the issues, you'll make the wrong decisions.
in democracy - everyone is equal, but some persons are more "equal" than others)
Nice clean explanation without gimmicks.
Excellent presentation that tackles class warfare against the poor and therefore falls heaviest on people of color.
As professor of law you need to address the yoked issue of the destruction of due process by the very students you educated.
Our unalienable rights are treated as a set of privileges to be granted in full, in part or denied altogether. An example illustrates the general condition.
Edward DiPrete, former governor of Rhode Island was charged $1.3 million in legal fees for the state constitutionally guaranteed right of Discovery. Apparently reduced to the devil's bargain poorer defendants face earlier in their cases he plead out. He did get a free trial by press. Over two Sundays editions of the Providence Journal-Bulletin reporters narrated the prosecutors tale of his guilt without the annoyance of a defense. This trial was the only one the R.I. citizens got as well. It did serve as a warning to all of the power of the state that resides in lawyers. It is no doubt gratifying for the "Masters of the Courts" and their "Esquires" to grant a nolo contendre plead defendant the inalienable right to grovel before them.
The state lottery had to shut down bets placed on Mr. DiPrete's prison number the day he entered so some non-attorneys got some amusement from the affair.
It's a stark fact: the accused are presumed guilty and are often denied the opportunity to prove their innocence. All are required to rent their rights. One of DiPrete's lawyers let it slip,"At these prices who can afford justice?"
While it may not have been done in these public show proceedings there is a more disturbing practice used by the legal profession. I might just as well or better have made my point by beginning and ending on this single point: If it is due process why is it ever necessary to falsify transcripts in a felony case?
Two other reasons prison population didn't decline when the crime rate did:
1. Privately owned prisons. Too much investment to be lost; too much profit to be made.
2. Local economies. How many small towns in the US have a local prison as their largest employer?
Im in a tiny southern town and there is literally a prison less than half a mile away. Concerningly close to a school.
I'm afraid to ask, lol.
For cheap labor for farmers and industry
Modern slavery
It’s no mistake that prisons are in rural areas with no other good jobs.
"You can't get rid of crime without eradicating its causes" That should be framed in every elected official's office
If you believe its causes are defective people, you can take a shortcut of just eradicating the people. Which is what has happened.
So you want to eradicate criminals? Like shoot them into space or something maybe?
@@jsebby2284 No-no, the other side, the public guillotine way for Government that caused it, usually it ends up with it anyway
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There is no money on wipe out poverty
Brilliant presentation
The animations are absolutely spectacular
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This is the information everyone should be taught.
Indeed
Having experienced homelessness as a result of the 2008 housing market crash for a good four years, I eventually dug my way out and back into good ol' regular poverty; but I can attest to what is said in this video: I was repeatedly incarcerated for vagrancy, trespassing, larceny (gotta eat) and stuck in a hellish cycle of no employment, no hope, no help, and an existence that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I learned that when one doesn't have money, one doesn't really exist anymore. The system MUST profit from you, and the last resort is to imprison and exploit you for free labor, and as an example to others to 'get with the program', lest you be vanished as well.
Too bad I wasn't born into wealth, then I could serve as an example of 'having earned the American Dream through hard work and determination, etc, etc, etc.'....
Jesus what a fucking joke our nation has become.
I am amazed by the beautiful Illustrations / Animations 😮
Isn’t it weird that the right wing anti sjw slogan is “facts over feelings” but it’s almost always the left wing that has the facts on their side?
It's almost like they're just lying
Math, science, and history are all left wing propaganda don't believe it!!!1
@@NoName-bh4pf yeah brother!!
The right thinks that facts are whatever the fevered brain of Dennis Prager unleashes on the world.
And when you debate them long enough, all thier arguments start boil down to "My feelings! My feelings! My feelings!"
"A war by the ruling class on the poor and the marginalized" gave me chills. Great episode! Let's go!
I'm working in a machine shop and the metal dust in the bacteria smelling coolant is killing my chest. But I need the money to survive.
Well done my brother.I wish you all the best in your fight to right this wrong only who has lived this life truly under stands it but thanks for your input.
the animation is so beautiful mad props to whoever made those
It was the wonderful Zachary Lindemann, who just joined us as an animator. Look for more from our collaboration in the future!
At 4:51 when the prison bars turned into grid lines on the graph I gasped
Both parties love to play the blame game. But they were both involved in creating the system.
STRAIGHT UP FACTS
How have I not found this until now?
Thank you, Mr. Madar! ❤️
Professor Madar is a great narrator. Bring him back sometime if possible!
this coming from a Law professor, comparing China' statistics to the U.S.A. statistics.
all while teaching the lawyers, who take every part in sentencing ETC.
A FUCKING LAW PROFUCKINGFESSOR....................... UNBELIEVABLE.............. ?
Put blame where it belongs on very people who refuse to change
I was literally thinking about how bad American prisons are and how Gravel should make a video on them yesterday, I suppose my wish was granted lol.
WOW!
They read your mind
Wow, amazing animations!
Thanks for sharing sir
The Gravel Institute gives me hope. Its nice to know our side also has a voice combating directly the violence of others.
I am so happy this exists
"You can't eradicate crime without eliminating the root causes of crime" Powerful words that speak so many truths....
Fatherless homes is the issue
@@ezniyazov7970 Because a lot of their fathers get locked up.
@@nuclearcatbaby1131 actually many black kids are born out of wedlock.
@@ezniyazov7970 I know but there has got to be a number of black fathers separated from even visiting their kids because of the prison system.
America is incredibly good at seeing a problem, and treating the symptom without treating the source. You cannot kill a weed by pulling out only the leaves, so long as the root remains the problem will return.
When your down the system kicks you down farther. Rights you have are dictated by how much money you have,no money no rights! The more money you have the more rights you have period!
Don't say period as if if you said something correct or intelligent lol
Thank you. Liked and subscribed
Correct me if I’m wrong, but you could have mentioned that prisons actually make money the more prisoners they have.
I think that they’re covering that in another video in the future so that they could go more into depth about it
These are bite-sized videos.
You could do hours on this subject and still just be doing an overview.
@@dynamicworlds1 Indeed. We live in a messed up world.
Yeah, I felt that that was missing. There was no mention of what incentive there is to lock up so many people. If you actually look into it, the american prison system is a disgusting humanitarian crisis.
@@HenrikMyrhaug There's a lot of disgusting things in this country like how healthcare system, education system, military-industrial complex, etc.
_"Small-government conservatives"_ defend this.
Well I am a small government liberal and I don't see a connection it has with small government. This is what big government cause, like in the Nazi Germany or Soviet gulags. We shouldn't give person/party such power that they can lock so many people.
@@kemalsarpcomert3114 Preferring "small government" or "big government" seems to be a meaningless opinion to me. What matters is how the government acts, not how big it is.
@@aidanknoll1019 Even though I agree I have things to add. For me small government is preferable option because even if well managed big government benefits the people really well this "big" ability to dictate power can be handled badly too which will cost too much. Also from an moral perspective, I don't think it's really ethic to give so much power to state. Even if it is elected democratically, at least %30 of the people doesn't want that group to govern the country but they sure do. When you give state "big" powers, the person will be effected from that idea even though they doesn't want. Like LGBTQ persons in "democratic" Islamic countries. Most of the people choose to ban them, but can we talk about freedom there? Absolutely not. So I think it is always better to keep the smallest power possible for government to work.
@@kemalsarpcomert3114 Also, the idea that "small government" conservatives support this IS the irony.
@@aidanknoll1019 whoever supports this isn't a small government supporter. At least for me
"Disappearing undesirables". Where else have we seen that on a mass scale?
Well done! All facts!
This is probably the most depressing video from this channel so far, if that was ever possible. Thing whole issue stings me in a part where few others reach.
Our system is so fucked.
And it only skimmed the surface of it.
We still legally use prisoners for slave labor (and because of that, there are more people doing slave labor in the US right now than there were at the height of chattel slavery)
Also “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
-former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman
In addition to all the reasons involving money, the mass incarceration state is a massive disenfranchisement program that has been justifiably described as the new Jim Crow.
This is why felons must retain their voting rights. Not even out of sympathy for the felons but because you cannot trust politicians with the power to strip an adult citizen of their right to vote or they will _create_ the situation where they can abuse that power to their political ends.
Voting rights _must_ be inalienable no matter what a person has done for the same reason you cannot let politicians draw their own district boundries. Voters must choose the politicians. NEVER the other way around.
@@dynamicworlds1 Nono it's _not_ slavery. They get paid a whole 15 cents an hour. Don't be so alarmist.
*note: this is sarcastic and I've long sense drowned in cynicism. our movement feels so hopeless sometimes that it's hard to cope without irony.
@@icefire6622 The problem is that alot of people say we should do something, but simply sit around and don't. Weekend activists. Fight the power Friday night, back to work Monday.
When someone says "America is the greatest country on earth" always be sure to ask them "by what measure?"
Most evil country in human history.
Ask the millions of immigrants
Why not ask the millions of people risking their lives to get across the border ?
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Because they never lived here and do not yet know the true illusion of real fake freedom in America
Most people of the world trying to avoid any direct contacts to Americans. Just to be sure.
Thank you
I found this while searching for "comparing prison to homelessness". Maybe do a video on the cost of incarceration vs. the cost of homelessness.
"A war by the ruling class on the poor and the marginalized" - yup.
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Great videos
Very well done 👏
Where the right naturalizes, the left historicizes - brilliant content as always!!!
another banger from the gravel institute, much love for y'all!
Argumentatively and Speculatively We Within The United States Have Created The Prison Industrial Complex: Akin to the Military Industrial Complex, Both Are Controlled By The Wealthy!