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Locking Up Our Own

Crime and Punishment in Black America
  • James Forman Jr.
2018
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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  • Reagan signing the Anti-Drug Abuse Act.
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    The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration

    Two new books, including ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ address major blind spots about the causes of America’s carceral failure.
    by Vesla M. Weaver via Boston Review on October 24, 2017
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    Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Mass Incarceration

    The rise​ of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.
    by Adam Shatz via London Review of Books on May 4, 2017
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