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Tasseli McKayStolen Wealth, Hidden Power is a staggering account of the destruction wrought by mass incarceration. Finding that the economic value of the damages to Black individuals, families, and communities totals $7.16 trillion—roughly 86 percent of the current Black–White wealth gap—this co

By Jessica T. Simes, author of Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass ImprisonmentDespite growing attention to the problem of mass incarceration, we are still only beginning to capture its far-reaching harms. Scholars and activists have revealed mass incarceration’s impact on the individuals ta

By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American PolicingJuly 17, 2020Fifty years ago today, Life magazine printed photographs taken inside a prison on an island off the coast of Vietnam called Côn Sơn.The photos depicted a wing of a

By Mugambi Jouet, author or Exceptional America: What Divides Americans From the World and From Each OtherAs America and the world ponder George Floyd’s appalling death, what lies beneath the tip of the iceberg? How do callous killings of black people by police relate to wider systemic r