Putting readers at the defense table, this book forces us to consider how any of us might be swept up in the system, whether we hired a bad lawyer, bear a slight resemblance to someone else in the world, or are not good with awkward silence. The stories of Brooks’s cases and clients pa...
Tasseli McKay
Stolen 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 g...
By Jessica T. Simes, author of Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment
Despite 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 ind...
By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing
July 17, 2020
Fifty 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 ...
By Mugambi Jouet, author or Exceptional America: What Divides Americans From the World and From Each Other
As 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...