Nhat Anh Ngo Dan
PHIL 102: Moral Problems
Professor McKiernan
April 18, 2018
Reading Reflection #4:
The New Jim Crow
– The Lockdown
“These examples [of the three-strike laws] may sound extreme, but real life can be worse.
Sentences for each charge can run consecutively, so a defendant can easily face a sentence of
fifty, seventy-five, or one hundred years to life arising from a single case. It is not uncommon for
people to receive prison sentences of more than fifty years for minor crimes. In fact, fifty years to
life was the actual sentence given to Leandro Andrade for stealing videotapes, a sentence upheld
by the Supreme Court”
(92).
In the second chapter of her book, Michelle Alexander focuses on the War on Drugs to
explain the system of mass incarceration. She begins with discussing how the Fourth
Amendment is constantly breached in favor of unjust policing tactics, especially on people of
color. She discusses a myriad of important court cases such as
Terry v. Ohio, California v.
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