Cruel and unequal, how our penal system mass produces second class citizens. People of all colors use and sell drugs at similar rates. Yet, African American adults are ten times more likely than whites to go to prison on drug charges. A look at the social effects of mass incarceration—by Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander is the author of the 2010 novel The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness in fact we have featured topics from her book on Know thyself Community Wednesday.
In her book she says that there are more black men behind bars or under the watch of the criminal justice system than there were enslaved in 1850.