Incarceration disproportionately impacts people of color and and can have deleterious multigenerational impact (Shaw 275-276). "Many children of incarcerated parents face profound adversity" (Martin 4). By the end of 2019, 1,430,805 people were incarcerated in the US (Bureau of Justice). In 2015, one in every 17 Black men between the ages of 30-34 was in prison, and for Hispanic men of the same age, one in 42 were in prison (The Sentencing Project 1). The issue mass incarceration is a serious societal problem that will require meaningful solutions . Works cited below.
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