Throughout our country's history, racial and ethnic minorities experience racism and discrimination at the highest rates. One of the major forms of racism and discrimination these minorities face is mass incarceration. Mass incarceration refers to the substantial increase in incarceration over the years. The United States of America has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world, beating out countries like Russia, Mexico, and Cuba. Although the population of the United States represents only about 4.4% of the world's population, the mass incarceration rate in America it is significantly higher than in other countries. Mass incarceration has been a huge problem in our society and the effects it has on people and communities. Jeffrey Rieman is a Marxist criminal justice scholar who believes that the real goal of criminal justice ideology was to project to the public a visible image of the threat of crime as a threat from the poor, not to eliminate crime and achieve justice. He believes that the criminal actually fails to achieve the set goals. Rieman suggests that the criminal justice system is projecting an image of a criminal as an underclass, along with racial and ethnic minorities (Rieman's mass incarceration has become not only a criminal justice issue, but also a rights issue civil and racial. Although drug use and drug-related crimes are committed at similar rates across racial and ethnic groups, offenders are not incarcerated equally. From research conducted, it becomes clear that sentencing bias exists , so minorities are convicted and sentenced more often, in addition to facing harsher punishments, our society must address the racial issues that arise from mass incarceration and take action to allow our society to focus on drug and racism issues..