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Biggest Prison System Ever; Black Women’s Experience of Police Violence; System Condones Abusive Police
Enter the biggest prison system in history. The Empire holds by far the most prisoners than any other country on earth, in both absolute numbers and per capita. Abby Martin explores the dark reality of conditions in America’s prisons, who is warehoused in them, and how things got this way.
What It Means to Center Black Women’s Experiences of Police Violence. Recent cases of police violence against Black women are representative of long-term trends in gendered experiences of state violence.
Police Are Granted Abusive Powers By a System That Condones Their Actions. ”Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter,” writes Kristian Williams in Our Enemies in Blue. “Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent.”
