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| Disparity and Bias in Arizona Maximum-Security Prisons |
| By tucsoncitizen.com |
| Published: 06/13/2013 |
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As Arizona Legislators hurtle themselves – and by proxy all of us Arizonans – toward the terrifying carceral future just as Governor Brewer imagined, by approving a $50 million contract to build 500 new maximum-security prison beds at the Lewis prison complex, AFSC took some time to break down the ethnicity distribution statistics that the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) posts every month on their website. It turns out that not only are prisons bastions of inequality and racial bias, but the most severe form of incarceration – supermax prisons, solitary confinement, and every other iteration of isolation – is an even greater distillation of incarcerated people of color. That’s right folks, not only are people of color more likely to end up in prison, but once in an Arizona prison the chances of ending up in long-term isolation are also higher! AFSC recently completed their analysis here (Racial and Ethnic Disparity in ADC Maximum Security Prisons), complete with colorful charts and shocking statistics. Here is one juicy tidbit from the report: ”The focus on people held in the maximum-security units is important, and the comparison is particularly instructive for the following reason: the decision to place people in these units is an administrative one, and therefore one that is discretionary. What does it mean that nearly three-quarters of the men subjected Read More. |
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