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Incarceration
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All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could produce it, and for the spreading of this condensed depravity and vice broadcast among the whole population.
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― Resurrection
― Resurrection
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I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going to jail becomes a relief.
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― The Sellout
― The Sellout
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michell…more
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Recommended Reading and Discussion with Showing Up for Racial Justice Northern Virginia
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