Stone Walls and Steel Bars: America’s War on its Own Keeps Raging
The cruel and unusual punitiveness of American society is a frequent topic on these page. (The most recent piece is here.) No nation on earth puts as many of its people in jail — both in real numbers and as a percentage of the population. And few if any have "justice" systems so savagely targeted at racial minorities. For the past 30 years — concurrent with the organized effort by the monied, militarized elite to destroy any and all restraints on their predatory appetites — the United States has waged an unrelenting war on its black population, and on other