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Imagine that you are walking down a street in your neighborhood and you suddenly are arrested by the police and incarcerated.

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This is what happened to Sheila Phipps’ son, McKinley who was 13 year old. He was imprisoned for manslaughter because he was in the area of a crime.

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There are more people incarcerated in the United States than anywhere else in the world.

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About 87,000 people in jail are innocent. In addition, there are even more people that should be in jail and that aren't

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Most of the innocent people that are incarcerated are put in jail because they were wrongly associated with the crime.

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In addition to affecting the incarcerated person's life, it also affects their family because their family is not with them. They will miss the person incarcerated and not be whole until they are home

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We should base accusations on facts and not eyewitnesses because your memory is not as good as it could be during extreme circumstances, like being in the middle of a crime.

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Incarcerating people disproportionality affects  African-American people. About 1 in 4 African-American men are in jail. But, only 1 in 30 white men are in jail.

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The pictures show some more about Mass Incarceration 

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The pictures show some more about Mass Incarceration 

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The line chart shows what people are affected and the pie chart shows where and why they were incarcerated (click the pictures to enlarge)

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It effects the incarcerated persons life because they can't be with their family and they now have a false criminal record that can prevent them from doing some things

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If someone was in the area of a crime, the police could record their name in the database. This way they could tell if they were lying or they really just were in the wrong place

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Ted Talks. 27 June 2006, www.ted.com/talks/
     eve_abrams_the_human_stories_behind_mass_incarceration#t-127471. Accessed
     29 Jan. 2021.

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Although 2.3 million people are incarcerated, getting rid of prisons would not be a good idea because that means that some real criminals will not be incarcerated

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Prison Policy. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html. Accessed 29 Jan. 2021. 