On Black Complicity in the Mass Incarceration Machine

'Law professor James Forman, Jr discusses the looming presence of policing and mass incarceration in a Black America starved of economic or social services in the decades after the Civil Rights struggle, and explains how Black politicians petitioned for tougher law enforcement alongside a re-investment plan in their communities, only to receive the former, with devastating consequences. Forman is the author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. -- This is Hell!