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Incarceration
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This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. It is about how easily we condemn people in this country and the injustice we create when we allow fear, anger, and distance to shape the way we treat the most vulnerable among us. It's also about a dramatic period in our recent history, a period that indelibly marked the lives of millions of Americans--of all races, ages, and sexes--and the American psyche as a whole.
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― Just Mercy
― Just Mercy
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...Nekhlúdoff clearly saw that all these people were arrested, locked up, exiled, not really because they transgressed against justice or behaved unlawfully, but only because they were an obstacle hindering the officials and the rich from enjoying the property they had taken away from the people.
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― Resurrection
― Resurrection
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michell…more
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