- Feb 22, 2020 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm EST
- Location: The People's Forum 320 W 37th Street New York, NY
- Latest Activity: Feb 18, 2020
Join us at the People's Forum for this month's liberation school!
Liberation School Presents:
A History of Mass Incarceration Under Capitalism
Saturday, February 22nd, 2pm
The People's Forum
320 W 37th Street
New York, NY 10018
While other advanced nations are seeing continual increases to their quality-of-life indices, the only thing the U.S. has managed to consistently increase is its prison population. With a highly segregated education system that relies too heavily on invalid standardized testing and punitive disciplinary tactics, the school-to-prison pipeline is only strengthening for the poor, Black. Further, considering that the crime rate has steadily dropped and stagnated over the past few decades, this makes the negative correlation between declining crime and police militarization, or the rapid expansion of the prison industrial complex much more glaringly apparent and disturbing.
Come join us for a community discussion on the origins of the carceral state, how its funded, and what motivations our government has in assisting in its success.
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