What are the disadvantages associated with the use of mandatory minimum sentencing? What are the impacts of these polici

1. According to the article, Mass Incarceration: A Contemporary Mechanism of Racialization in the United States by Jacqueline Johnson, how is mass incarceration a contemporary mechanism of racialization? Please provide examples for your answer and reference course material.
2. According to the article, Race, Place, and Effective Policing by Anthony Braga, Rod Brunson, and Kevin Drakulich, which policing practices being currently employed among police departments in the United States fuel racism? What are some of the other undesirable outcomes of employing these policing practices? How can police departments address these problems within American policing? Please provide examples for your answer and reference course material.
3. What are the disadvantages associated with the use of mandatory minimum sentencing? What are the impacts of these policies on judges, prosecutors, the accused, those of color, prison populations, and crime rates? Please provide examples for your answer and reference course material.
4. What does the governments changing approach to the war on drugs reveal about racial politics in the United States? Do you think drug dependence should be treated as a criminal justice problem or as a public health problem? What are the costs and benefits of each approach? If a friend or family member was struggling with addiction, would you want that person to be imprisoned, or would you want them put into a treatment program? Why? Please provide examples for your answer and reference course material.
5. What is the relationship between education and recidivism? What type of educational programs should be offered for inmates while in prison to reduce post-release incarceration? Please provide examples for your answer and reference course material.