Image: Parchman, 1932; 10 years old.
The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by
Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race. Published in 2012; print & eBook available.
Just Mercy: A story of justice and redemption by
Bryan Stevenson was a gifted young attorney when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending the poor, the wrongly condemned, and those trapped in the furthest reaches of our criminal justice system. Published in 2014; print & eBook available. UM common read for 2017.
Prison Land by
"From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life Prison Land offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social relations--including property, work, gender, and race--enacted across various landscapes of American life.
