A review by francescamoroney
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. by Danielle S. Allen

4.0

I highly recommend this book for anyone who is angered by or worried about the industrialized prison complex, the criminalization of the poor, racially biased sentencing protocols, racial profiling, or the unjust War on Drugs. Beyond that, it is a compelling first person narrative of how all of those societal forces conspire to derail millions of lives, using one particular boy as the focal point of the story. Mandatory reading as a companion piece to Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow.