A review by tophat8855
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

This is really a very good book. I read the 10th anniversary edition and its forward. The forward is really important and highly recommended. I think one aspect of the prison system that is overlooked in this book is its affect on the physical health of the people in prison. Lack of access to good care leaves people at a huge disadvantage once they are out. This was published right before the Covid pandemic hit, so she wouldn’t know how devastating a pandemic would be on the people in a prison, how many people would die because they are not given appropriate housing for human beings.

There is so much good stuff in here though, and she doesn’t pull punches on making who is responsible for the war on drugs and how each President since has failed to truly end it or fix it.