Locking Up Our Own
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What’s it about?
A Pulitzer-winning look at how Black leaders, seeking safety from crime, helped build the mass incarceration system that now devastates their own communities.
You’ll learn
- Why Black leaders backed tough-on-crime policies
- How the war on drugs targeted Black neighborhoods
- The tragic paradox of demanding both protection and justice
- Lessons for reforming criminal justice today