Article by Shabnam Ali
The systemic poverty, over-policing, and over-imprisonment of the BAME Youth and communities are key and significant indicators that institutional racism does continue to exist in UK infrastructure. The disproportionate level of BAME population vs prison population can be tied to roots of systemic poverty induced and ignored by governments, creating a Hunger Games-style competition within such low-income communities, sadly resorting to violence in a battle to compete, to ultimately escape the position our government placed them in.