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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

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  1. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness1

    The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    by Michelle Alexander

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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson

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Stevenson recounts his founding of the Equal Justice Initiative and his defense of Walter McMillian, a Black man wrongly sentenced to death in Alabama, to argue that the American criminal justice system is structurally shaped by racial terror, poverty, and the presumption of guilt. He contends that mercy and proximity to the condemned are prerequisites for any real reform.

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