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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
2010
The New Press
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How the Drug War Dies
A few decades ago, the left and the right, politicians and the public, universally embraced the criminalization of drug use. But a new consensus has emerged.
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Maia Szalavitz
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The Nation
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March 21, 2022
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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.
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Adam Shatz
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London Review of Books
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May 4, 2017
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New Sheriff in Town
Law enforcement and the urban-rural divide.
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Jonathon Booth
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The Drift
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February 3, 2021
Everything You Know About Mass Incarceration Is Wrong
The US carceral state is a monstrosity with few parallels in history. But most accounts fail to understand how it was created, and how we can dismantle it.
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Adaner Usmani
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Jacobin
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Jacobin
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March 17, 2020
