{"id":6804,"date":"2013-02-19T22:23:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T02:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=6804"},"modified":"2013-02-19T22:26:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T02:26:29","slug":"prison-and-the-poverty-trap-john-tierney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2013\/02\/prison-and-the-poverty-trap-john-tierney.html","title":{"rendered":"“Prison and the Poverty Trap”: John Tierney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

in the NYT<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u2026The shift to tougher penal policies three decades ago was originally credited with helping people in poor neighborhoods by reducing crime. But now that America\u2019s incarceration rate has risen to be the world\u2019s highest, many social scientists find the social benefits to be far outweighed by the costs to those communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrison has become the new poverty trap,\u201d said Bruce Western, a Harvard sociologist. \u201cIt has become a routine event for poor African-American men and their families, creating an enduring disadvantage at the very bottom of American society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among African-Americans who have grown up during the era of mass incarceration, one in four has had a parent locked up<\/a> at some point during childhood. For black men in their 20s and early 30s without a high school diploma, the incarceration rate is so high \u2014 nearly 40 percent nationwide \u2014 that they\u2019re more likely to be behind bars than to have a job<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No one denies that some people belong in prison. Mr. Harris, now 47, and his wife, 45, agree that in his early 20s he deserved to be there. But they don\u2019t see what good was accomplished by keeping him there for two decades, and neither do most of the researchers who have been analyzing the prison boom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

more<\/a> (maybe via Radley Balko<\/a>, whom you all should be following). This includes a lot of material about the effect of mass incarceration on children and families, which is one of those inescapable themes if you read enough of the marriage\/family-breakdown literature.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

in the NYT: \u2026The shift to tougher penal policies three decades ago was originally credited with helping people in poor neighborhoods by reducing crime. 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