American Justice System and Jim Crow

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American Justice System and Jim Crow
Five decades after, African Americans won the war on civil rights movements and racial segregation. Most black people have lost liberty as the current prison population accounts for a higher population of black Americans than any other race. In addition, blacks make up a higher percentage of the prison population compared to Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ruling stated that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Currently, the risk of incarcerated black men is high, and prison reforms and development affect black men. In the United States, black men are imprisoned 6.5 times higher than white men. Even though Jim Crow laws were eliminated, it can be argued that the current American Justice system follows the now New Jim Crow following the growing penal system with a black tinge. Thus, this paper seeks to agree with scholars that the current American Justice system has reproduced Jim Crow. 
The Debate
The Jim Crow laws were a correction of state laws that legalized racial segregation and marginalized African Black Americans by depriving them right to vote, have decent jobs, and get an education or engagement in social activities. The Jim Crow laws were outdated through the civil rights movements, and a free and fair system was put in place, withholding justice for all. However, in the 1990s, scholars argued that Jim Crow was back in the criminal justice system. Racial profiling and the war against drugs were the scopes to bring about Jim Crow. For instance, in 1999, William Buckman and John Lamberth argued that Jim Crow was back in the form of racial profiling and war against drugs. Black people were associated with drug trafficking and abuse and were often mistaken for gangsters and criminals.
In addition, American Civil Liberties Union( ACLU) director Ira Glasser, in 2000, stated that the fight against drugs was a new form of racial segregation. He argued that it was a system to subjugate, separate, destroy, and imprison men of color. Different scholars later acquired this analogy and continued with the New Jim Crow analogy.
Further, Michelle Alexander, a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, argues that the justice system is racist, targeting black individuals as felonies ( Michelle). Jim Crow changed its course from the traditional deprivation of social, civil, and economic civil rights to the New Jim crow of racial profiling; offenders doing their sentences afterward continue experiencing the Jim Crow. These individuals find it difficult to find new jobs, as incarceration records are permanent and can easily be accessed.
Therefore, while Jim Crow applied to bla...