1. Why Mass Incarceration Matters to American History and to Teachers in American Schools Yale University March 19, 2014 Dr. Heather Ann Thompson Department of African American Studies Department of History Temple University

4. By 2008 in CT: 19, 413 locked behind bars in 18 facilities 1/33 residents under some form of correctional control

7. So?

8. Mass Incarceration Matters

9. The fate of our cities

10. The “Criminalization of Urban Space”

11. Why now?

15. LBJ and the Origins of the War on Crime Law Enforcement Assistance Act, 1965 President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, 1965 District of Columbia Crime Bill, 1967 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, 1968

16. What is old, is new

17. A Revolution in Drug Legislation

21. Lock up longer

22. Criminalizing Schools

24. The Fallout….

25. “Million Dollar Blocks”

27. Orphaning Children

28. Joblessness and Poverty

29. Welfare?

30. The Long Reach of the Carceral State

31. Rethinking the Fate of our Economy

32. Post-1865 Post-1965

33. Prison Labor

34. CORRECTIONAL ENTERPRISES OF CONNECTICUT

37. Brand new age of prison privatization for profit Example: Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), Wackenhut, etc.

38. Urban and Labor Crisis

39. So, why haven’t we changed this?

40. Distorting Democracy

41. 1974: Richardson v. Ramirez 2006: 48 out of 50 states have a disfranchisement law on the books

43. The U.S. Census….

44. The U.S. Census….and Connecticut

46. Bottom line: The majority-white residents of 7 state House districts in Connecticut get significantly more representation in the legislature because each of their districts includes more than 1,000 incarcerated people of color from other parts of the state.

47. So what about everyone else?

48. Why Mass Incarceration Matters to American History and to Teachers in American Schools Yale University March 19, 2014 Dr. Heather Ann Thompson Department of African American Studies Department of History Temple University