Is the mass incarceration of Blacks and Latinos the new Jim Crow?

Is the mass incarceration of Blacks and Latinos the new Jim Crow?

I.
Is the Mass
Incarceration of Blacks and Latinos the New Jim Crow? (pp 222-235)
YES: James Kilgore, from “Racism and Mass
Incarceration in the US Heartland: Historical Roots of the New Jim Crow,” Truthout (2015)
NO: James Forman, Jr., from “Racial
Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow,” Racial
Critiques (2012)
ISSUE SUMMARY
YES: James Kilgore, through a study of the Midwestern
criminal legal system, argues that anti-black racism, especially in the Midwest,
resulting in high rates of incarceration, is determined by a number of factors.
Decades of segregation and deindustrialization have contributed to mass
incarceration. He argues that mass incarceration will not end unless there is a
restructuring of the regional economy along with an attack on white supremacy.
NO: James Forman, Jr., a clinical professor of law
at Yale Law School and a noted constitutional law scholar, affirms the utility
of the new Jim Crow paradigm but argues that it has significant limitations. It
obscures significant facts regarding the history of mass incarceration as well
as black support for punitive criminal justice policy among other deficiencies.

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