From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

Elizabeth Hinton

449 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the beli...

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