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Michelle Alexander's New York Time's Best Seller "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" addresses the failure of a prison system that has disproportionately targeted poor communities of color.
Check out Chapter 1 here: -----> The_New_Jim_Crow-1.pdfDownload The_New_Jim_Crow-1.pdf
Angela Davis, Emeritus Professor of UC Santa Cruz wrote her epic title, "Are Prison's Obsolete."
You can find the first chapter of her book here: -----> Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete-1.pdfDownload Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete-1.pdf
The Sentencing Project has this brief that will also help your understanding of the big picture!
You can access that brief here: ----> U.S.-Prison-Decline-Insufficient-to-Undo-Mass-Incarceration.pdfDownload U.S.-Prison-Decline-Insufficient-to-Undo-Mass-Incarceration.pdf
Considering the reality of institutional racism in corrections, consider the following questions for your discussion. You may do additional research on the web to fill out your answers!
1. What does 'mass incarceration' mean and who is primarily affected by this phenomenon?
2. Why is prison reform necessary, according to Davis and others?
3. What alternatives to incarceration would you suggest for people convicted of crimes? Research options and share a link with the class, describing these alternatives.