ASD Libraries: Global Issues in Action: Racism in Mass Incarceration

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From Reform to Abolition: The Future of the U.S. Prison System :

TED Talk: Bryan Stevenson - We Need to Talk About Injustice :

TED Talk: Eve Abrams - The Human Story Behind Mass Incarceration :

TED Talk: Marlon Peterson - Am I Not Human? A Call for Criminal Justice Reform :

Panel Discussion on Racism and Mass Incarceration :

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: B STEVENSON
ISBN: 9780812994520
Publication Date: 2014
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults) by Michael Bennett; Dave Zirin
Call Number: 305.8 BEN
ISBN: 9781642590227
Publication Date: 2019
rofessional football player Michael Bennett discusses his views on issues of racism and police violence, Black athletes and their relationship to powerful institutions like the NCAA and the NFL, the role of protest in history, and the responsibilities of athletes as role models to speak out against injustice.

Slavery gave merica a fear of black people and a taste for violent punishment. Both still define our criminal-justice system
From the 1619 Project in the New York Times Magazine. Published in 2019.
The Innocence Project
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"Justice in America, hosted by Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith III, is a podcast for everyone interested in criminal justice reform. Each episode we cover a new criminal justice issue. We explain how it works and look at its impact, particularly on poor people and people of color. We’ll also interview activists, practitioners, experts, journalists, organizers, and others, to learn."

Book Excerpt: The Color of Justice [PDF]
From Chapter 3 of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.

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Experts worry about a heavier police presence in schools: ‘Black and brown children bear the brunt of criminalization’
A 2022 article from CNN.
Harvard study finds institutional racism 'permeates' the Massachusetts justice system
An article from CNN.
Mass incarceration in America, explained in 22 maps and charts
This article explains the state and systems of incarceration in the U.S..
Mass incarceration and children’s outcomes
This article from the Economic Policy Institute explains how having incarcerated parents affects children emotional and cognitive wellbeing.
Black Lives Matter: Eliminating Racial Inequity in the Criminal Justice System
From the The Sentencing Project, an organization that promotes appropriate and fair response to crime by actively calling for the elimination of racial, ethnic, economic, and gender injustice.
The Changing Racial Dynamics of Women’s Incarceration
From The Sentencing Project.

Bail

War on Drugs

Race and the Drug War
"The Drug Policy Alliance envisions a just society in which the use and regulation of drugs are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights, in which people are no longer punished for what they put into their own bodies but only for crimes committed against others, and in which the fears, prejudices and punitive prohibitions of today are no more."
THE DRUG WAR IS THE NEW JIM CROW
From the American Civil Liberties Union
Racial Justice Requires Ending the War on Drugs
An academic paper published in the American Journal of Bioethics
Drug Policy Priority Issues for Biden Administration
This is a recommendation paper from Rice University.
War on Drugs Policing and Police Brutality
This is an academic paper published in 2021.

The House That Race Built by Wahneema Lubiano (Editor)
Call Number: 305.8 HOU
ISBN: 9780679760689
Publication Date: 1998
This book contains an essay called "Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry by Angela Y Davis.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: 305.800973 COA
ISBN: 9780812993547
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police.

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