Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman Jr.

320 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported ...

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