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Sentencing Law and Policy: "Mass Incarceration Retards Racial Integration"


Mass Incarceration Retards Racial Integration
The title of this post is the title of this recent working paper authored by Peter Temin for the Institute for New Economic
Thinking.  Here is its abstract:
President Nixon replaced President Johnson’s War on Poverty with his War on Drugs in 1971.  This new drug war was expanded by President Reagan and others to create mass incarceration.  The United States currently has a higher percentage of its citizens incarcerated than any other industrial country.  Although Blacks are only 13 percent of the population, they are 40 percent of the incarcerated.  The literatures on the causes and effects of mass incarceration are largely distinct, and I combine them to show the effects of mass incarceration on racial integration.  Racial prejudice produced mass incarceration, and mass incarceration now retards racial integration. ....

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