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We could choose to be a nation that extends care, compassion, and concern to those who are locked up and locked out or headed for prison before they a...more

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Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and avoid prison time, they must be on their best beha...more

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When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings, racial epithets, an...more

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Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race i...more

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The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and mo...more

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A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the racial realiti...more

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The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. People choose to commit cr...more

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Vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as "mischief" and "insulting gestures" as crimes were enforced vigorously against blacks. The ag...more