With this country so divided and so many groups of people getting mistreated, and the group is trying to become equal or greater than the next or gain some type of justice. Civic compact is what will allow voices to be heard and create change in this country and communities. 
At this time our democracy is being threatened in multiple ways. From the pandemic creating a change on our voting systems to social media spreading misinformation to the public. I'm here to speak with my team on one of the biggest things hurting our democracy, particularly the democracy is the black community; the prison system.

Not Enough Time- 1st Episode

Did we really abolish slavery? The United States still has the largest known incarcerated population in the world, based on the data collected by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research. According to Barkow, the author of Prisoners of Politics; says that It would take 75 years to decrease the population by half if we keep focusing on the types of criminal justice changes we’re doing now. The U.S accounts for 4% of the world’s population, it has more than a third of the estimated number of people serving life sentences and being used for free labor. Even though the rate of black adults serving prision sentences declined by nearly a third over the past decade, racial disparity among men remains the same, with black men serving prision sentences at almost 6 times the rate of white man.

Amend the 13th- 2d Episode

The exception clause in the 13 th amendment states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” As a result of the exception clause people who are now convicted will be sent to a prison where they are treated as second class citizens inside of prison and even when they are released. Supporting evidence 1: According to the article, “How a 13th Amendment Loophole Created America’s Carceral State” by Flores Forbes, he talks about his time in prison making chairs for the prison furniture factory, and how he was paid only 15 cents an hour...

Democracy- 3d Episode

Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color “criminals” and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind. Like slavery Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the way that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you are labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal. Unborn fetuses have more rights, than convicted person of color.

Cotton, the Prison Fabric- 4th Episode

When watching Scandal a show which embodies civic duty, Olivia Pope would and trust Quinn to lead the case for the Amend the 13th policy initiative. She showed great integrity and she seem to be emotionally involved and very honest. In the article prison reform or prison abolition it is recognized the same notion of the Amend the 13 th policy initiative, which is to improve conditions of our prisons with policy changes such as removing the death penalty and constructing new prisons which would remove allowing slavery in prison which is a result of our current 13 th Amendment of The United States Constitution.

Amend the 13th (Scandal Show)- 5th Episode

There’s not enough time to explain the entire racial bias infrastructure of the criminal justice system or the buys within it, but there is enough time to talk about some important details about this racial bias impact and I hope you learned something on this podcast. Thank you for keeping up with our series.

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