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My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did…

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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to…
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those…
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance…
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively…
The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as…
The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington,…
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit,…
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the…
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in…
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in…
No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage…
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. — Honore de Balzac
There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime… — Benjamin Moser
Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime — Ben Mezrich
The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly. — Charles A. Reich
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. — Stand Watie
My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial… — Michelle Alexander
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started… — Jo Nesbo
Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward… — James Sallis
What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive… — Christian Nestell Bovee
But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. — Nancy Farmer
Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying… — Isaac Asimov
For the poor sick present in thisworld as any other great crime — Mal_786

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