Pruitt-loge

Yuri wright

After viewing the film “The Myth Of Pruitt-loge,” I learned a lot of very interesting things about the inner city and how they were created to keep African Americans in secluded areas area from the white people. The people in of this St. Louis ghetto were set up in public housing. The public housing system was set up very similar to the prison system that we see today. The idea behind building public house was to help the people who were less fortunate with their living situation, which was mainly the African American community.  The public housing that was built was very similar to what we see jails look like “the first prisionization of public housing as well as retirement homes, single room occupancy hostels, homeless shelters which they turn to look like detention centers. Also projects, have been fenced up, there perimeter placed under beefed up security patrols and authoritarian controls, including identification card cheeks, signing in electronic monitoring, police infiltration, random searches, segregation, curfews, etc. all familiar procedures of   prison management.”

The essay When Ghetto and Prison Meet and Mash, is related to Pruitt-loge, in both we can see that that people in the film were purposely being segregated from their whit peers because of their color of their skin. Africans Americans were being forced to living in housing systems, which at first they thought would be great, but they could only live in these housing systems if they could follow certain rules. If these rules were broken you where liable to lose the benefits and end up homeless. Father were not allow to live in these homes if they were not working or had no income, jobs where hard to hard find because all the jobs that were available where set up in areas were it wasn’t easy to travel to. This forced men to start doing things like selling drugs, which ultimately puts them at risk of ending up in jail. When they end up in jail and they come out they cant get jobs because of their record which them forces them back into doing the same thing. This sis a big part if the reason why we see a lot of single patent homes in the black communities. The big issue that we see in Pruitt-loge is the government refusing the fund and supports the people in this ghetto. This causes a lot of violence because the government doesn’t put, much funding into policing in these areas, which bring along a lot of violence. Violence is something that we saw was common in both Pruitt-loge and When Ghetto and Prison Meet and Mash