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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

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Co—Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Favorite Book of the Year

In the United States today, one in every thirty—one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the “land of the free” become the home of the world’s largest prison syst...