Wednesday, December 21, 2016

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

"Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race" (Alexander, 2012, p. 13).
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