Ep. 15 – How the U.S. Criminal Justice System Was Built to Control Black People

In this episode of The Ryles Report, Attorney Richard Ryles takes a deeper dive into the story introduced in Episode 13—Boyah J. Farah’s wrongful police encounter and places it within the larger historical machinery of America’s criminal justice system.Tracing a straight line from slavery to Black Codes, Jim Crow, convict leasing, and modern drug laws, Ryles exposes how “law and order” has repeatedly been used as a tool of control, profit, and forced labor. From Mississippi’s Pig Laws to the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act and the rise of the prison industrial complex, this episode unpacks how seemingly neutral laws have produced devastatingly unequal outcomes for Black communities.This is a sobering, history-rich conversation about power, punishment, and profit and why understanding the past is essential if we want to change the future.