{"id":9291,"date":"2022-10-28T14:14:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T18:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/?p=9291"},"modified":"2022-10-28T14:18:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T18:18:59","slug":"eckerd-sociology-professor-prisons-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/eckerd-sociology-professor-prisons-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Eckerd College sociology professor pulls back curtain on incarceration with Prisons in America course"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extraa-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”] [image_with_animation image_url=”9292″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][vc_column_text]Professor of Sociology Michael Flaherty teaches a course called Prisons in America. Photo: Penh Alicandro ’22<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

Until the mid-1970s, America had a relatively low and stable rate of incarceration. Then three things changed that.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\u201cThe war on drugs, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act happened, and we had mass incarceration\u2014which was a way to reestablish suppression of racial and ethnic minorities,\u201d explains Michael Flaherty, Ph.D.<\/a>, professor of sociology<\/a> at Eckerd College. \u201cThe U.S. now incarcerates more people per capita than any other nation. We have about 5% of the world\u2019s population but about 25% percent of the prisoners in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incarceration rate in the U.S. is now just over 700 people per 100,000, Flaherty notes. In the United Kingdom, it\u2019s 148 per 100,000; in Germany, only 77. And of those inmates in America who are released, about 65% return to prison. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a revolving door,\u201d Flaherty says. \u201cThe prisons assume the inmates can\u2019t be rehabilitated, so they put no effort in it.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]These are some of the insights offered in Flaherty\u2019s Prisons in America course. The professor first taught the class last spring. This fall, he had to add a second section to accommodate student demand.<\/p>\n

Flaherty is a co-author of The Cage of Days<\/em><\/a> (Columbia University Press), a recently published book that examines the prison system in America\u2014including an in-depth account of the 31 years his co-author, K.C. Carceral, spent in prison before being paroled in 2013.<\/p>\n

The course examines the origins of the penitentiary system in Europe and its development in the early history of America. In addition to studying the rise of mass incarceration in terms of race and class, students discuss the privatization of prisons and the prison industrial complex in the United States. They also learn how incarceration affects the loved ones and families of prisoners, and explore how prisoners experience time and how they attempt to resist the temporal regime.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe importance of the course has to do with bringing awareness to what\u2019s going on in the country with respect to the criminal justice system,\u201d Flaherty says. \u201cI don\u2019t think there is enough awareness of what actually transpires. There\u2019s a lot of misrepresentation in various media \u2026 movies, television, novels.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”9293″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ bottom_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” el_class=”lg_text” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text]\u201cThe criminal justice system is often depicted as taking place in a court of law with a lawyer, judge and jury. But most cases are plea-bargained. There\u2019s no jury, no judge. And we have very long mandatory sentencing laws, so now this person is presented with going to trial or pleading out and getting, say, 15 years.\u201d<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Flaherty adds that it\u2019s important for students to understand the depth of the racial bias within the system. \u201cTwo-thirds of the people incarcerated from 1985 to 2000 were due to drug arrests,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd 80% of those arrests were for possession of marijuana. These are mostly people being arrested for low-level, nonthreatening kinds of crimes. White young people use marijuana more than Black young people, but Black youths are arrested far more often than white youths.\u201d<\/p>\n

Something that\u2019s not widely understood, Flaherty explains, \u201cis that American society generates a lot of desperate poor people who receive little assistance from the government but need to put a roof over their head and food on the table. Jobs they used to get have disappeared, and there\u2019s very little assistance to help them. The rich get richer and the poor get prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully the students are learning things they will take forward as citizens,\u201d Flaherty concludes.<\/p>\n

That, says his student Aleksa Curta, a junior sociology major from Oak Lawn, Illinois, is very likely. \u201cDr. Flaherty uses good statistical data to get an entire perspective on the disparities,\u201d she says. \u201cYou can\u2019t argue against the bias and corruption in the prison system when you have that data,\u201d she adds. \u201cIt kind of shook me that [Black people] are more likely to end up in prison than I am for a small offense. It really makes you think.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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