Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration
by
Heather Schoenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world—about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people—while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disparities in incarceration, the prison system also...