America has a long and unfortunate history of mistreating African Americans. It will take a lot to heal the damage our ancestors did to their ancestors. A great documentary you can watch on Netflix is called 13th
It is about the 13th Amendment to our constitution that banned slavery. However many people in the south at that time really didnt like that, and they found ways to keep people as slaves but with a different name, like share croppers, or by unjustly calling them criminals. When people in America go to jail (any race) they do manual labor for almost no money. It's a way to keep a form of slavery alive because if you're a felon, you aren't allowed to vote anymore.
So it's not a coincidence that in the south of America many African Americans were and are arrested and then deprived forever of their right to vote.
I will surely watch this, thanks, man, the same my friend was telling me that the prisons in USA is on big buisness.
Yes, it's very bad because if you have a for profit or "private" prison then you are creating a system where some people make money off of sending people to jail, which obviously encourages those people to try and get more people in jail.