This seminar was especially powerful and eye opening to me because it pushed me to consider situations that I hadn’t before. Mass incarnation seriously disrupts the foundations of families, and disproportionally affects African American families. Trauma in children associated with parental incarceration usually results in poorer performance in school, and if the proper support system is not set up, those children are more likely to get into trouble. The truth of the matter is that mass incarceration disproportionally affects poorer communities where community support or proper support systems are not set up in place to help the children who’s parents’ are out of their lives. These children, already dealing with so much, have a hard time focusing off themselves, on their education or have to constantly worry about wealth or food. These negative pressures on the children are what create a cycle. I really appreciated listening to this seminar because it allowed to me reflect on how truly interconnected the world is and educated me about a topic I wasn’t totally familiar with before.
Rose Scholars Fall 2020
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This comment reminds me of the book “Doing Time on the Outside”. The book focuses on the social networks of prisoners and how they’re effected. If you’re interested, I highly recommend it. The book tells stories of families who’s sons, daughters, moms, or dads, are in prison, and the impact that has on the entire family’s physical, economic, and mental wellbeing. It was really eye opening as well as heartbreaking for me to read.
I saw the previous comment recommends a book — interestingly enough, your post reminds me of a book as well. I read “Automating Inequality” the past winter. The book talks about how modern data technology further perpetuates the deep-rooted social inequality. The negative feedback loop you talked about is truly a problem. Maybe all we need is to give a helping hand to change one small part of the cycle so that the underprivileged can escape from their situations.