How Our Criminal Justice System Targets Communities

The video “How Our Criminal Justice System Targets Communities” by Val Jones was published by the social media publisher AJ+ in 2016.

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- The current justice and prison systems suffer from systemic racism and other forms of discrimination

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The source offers information related to the American criminal justice system, how it imprisons more people than any other country, and how it targets and affects poor and marginalized communities.

The US is the main incarcerator in the world

The source shows that the US is the main incarcerator in the world and that the US prisons currently hold 25% of the world’s prisoners. Val Jones – author and political activist – compares the US situation with the one in China, where there are over a billion citizens, yet fewer prisoners than in America.

The criminal justice system targets poor communities

The source suggests that the criminal justice...