The Road to Mass Incarceration

This video, The Road to Mass Incarceration, by Greenhouse Media summarizes criminal justice policy decisions dating back to the 1960s. Although the effects often took decades to manifest, each of these policy shifts increased the rate of incarceration in the U.S. The video ends with many of the architects of these changes, Democrats and Republicans alike, admitting the failure of these policies and suggesting that it is time for real change.

• Barry GoldwaterSelf (archive footage)
• Hubert H. HumphreySelf (archive footage)
• Lyndon B. JohnsonSelf (archive footage)
• Richard NixonSelf (archive footage)
• Nelson RockefellerSelf (archive footage)
• Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)
• Nancy ReaganSelf (archive footage)
• Jesse JacksonSelf
• George H. W. BushSelf
• Charles B. RangelSelf
• Booth GardnerSelf (archive footage)
• Jerry BrownSelf