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DESCRIPTION:With only 5% of the world’s population, the United States has 25% of the 
 world’s prisoners. Our incarceration rate – 730 per 100,000 people – 
 is by far the highest in the world. \n\nAfrican-Americans are imprisoned at 
 nearly six times the rate of whites, and Hispanics at two and a half times 
 the rate of whites. Many prisoners are held in conditions that violate 
 their Constitutional rights, as ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court (Brown v. 
 Plata, 2011).\n\nThe cost of this massive imprisonment, along with the 
 ever-expanding growth of the for-profit prison sector, is borne by the U.S. 
 taxpayer; the President’s FY 2013 budget request for the Federal Bureau 
 of Prisons totals $6.9 billion, while the total expenditure by states is 
 $52 billion (2011).\n\nHow did we get to this point, and where can we go 
 from here? Join three distinguished Berkeley scholars as they discuss the 
 history, growth, and future of America’s prison-industrial complex, and 
 its relevance to Constitutional freedoms. \n\nFeatured 
 Panelists:\n\nRebecca McLennan – Associate Professor of History, UC 
 Berkeley\nAuthor of The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the 
 Making of the American Penal State, 1776 – 1941 (2008)\n\nJonathan Simon 
 – Professor, UC Berkeley School of Law\nAuthor of Mass Incarceration on 
 Trial: Courts and the Future of American Prisons (forthcoming)\n\nFrank 
 Zimring – Professor, UC Berkeley School of Law\nAuthor of The City That 
 Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control (2011)\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/28/18720466.php
SUMMARY:The Constitutional Crisis of Imprisonment: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American D
LOCATION:Free Speech Movement Cafe\nMoffitt Library\nUC Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/28/18720466.php
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