Kylaj

Welcome!

Hello! I am a student at Rice University pursuing a major in Cognitive Science. I am interested in researching racial disparities and socioeconomic determinants in healthcare.

Interests

My interests include working on the current page for the Prison Industrial Complex or the Race in the United States Criminal Justice System to improve the class and quality standard. I am considering the implementing changes by broadening the variety of primary sources used in hopes to address some of the generally biased information presented in the article. I also plan to restructure the content and order of the subsections, expand upon the history of private prisons in America, reference the effect that the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 had on mass incarceration rates, and include a subsection that focuses on the negative effects and implications of Prison-industrial complexes.

The references I would use include:

Schlosser, Eric "The Prison Industrial Complex" The Atlantic Media Company, 1 Dec. 1998, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/12/the-prison-industrial

complex/304669/. Accessed 19 Sept. 2017. 

Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex , www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/davisprison.html. Accessed 19 Sept. 2017 

Kerby, Sophia. “The Top 10 Most Startling Facts About People of Color and Criminal Justice in the United States.” Center for American Progress , 29 May 2015, www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/11351/the-top10-most-startling-facts-about-people-of-color-and-criminal-justice-in-the-united

states/. Accessed 19 Sept. 2017. 

“The Crisis of the Young African American Male and the Criminal Justice System.” The Crisis of the Young African American Male and the Criminal Justice System .  

“Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System.” The Sentencing Project, 14 Feb. 2008, www.sentencingproject.org/wpcontent/uploads/2016/01/Reducing-Racial-Disparity-in-the-Criminal-Justice System-A-Manual-for-Practitioners-and-Policymakers.pdf. 

Gray-Ray, Phyllis, et al. "African Americans and the Criminal Justice System." Humboldt Journal of Social Relations , vol. 21, no. 2, 1995.  

Thompson, Heather Ann. "Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History." The 

Journal of American History , vol. 97, no. 3, Dec. 2010. JSTOR . 

Roberts, Dorothy E., "The Social and Moral Cost of Mass Incarceration in African American Communities" (2004). Faculty Scholarship. Paper 583 

Forman, James Jr, "RACIAL CRITIQUES OF MASS INCARCERATION: BEYOND THE NEW JIM CROW" (2012). Faculty Scholarship Series. 

Paper 3599. 

“MEN OF COLOR AND THE PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.” THE JOINT CENTER HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE , 2006

Thompson, Heather Ann. "Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History." The Journal of American History, vol. 97, no. 3, Dec. 2010. JSTOR.

Roberts, Dorothy E., "The Social and Moral Cost of Mass Incarceration in African American Communities" (2004). Faculty Scholarship. Paper 583

Roxanne Lynne Doty, Elizabeth Shannon Wheatley; Private Detention and the Immigration Industrial Complex, International Political Sociology, Volume 7, Issue 4, 1 December 2013, Pages 426–443

Camarota, Steven A. , and Jessica M. Vaughan. “Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Conflicted Issue.” Center for Immigration Studies, Nov. 2009, pp. 1–32.