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Mass incarceration has been profoundly harmful to communities of color. A dozen years after “The New Jim Crow” helped to identify the problem, how much headway have we made? (episode)
In 2010, Michelle Alexander’s best-selling book spelled out how mass incarceration harms communities of color. Assessing its impact, she looks back, and forward, with David Remnick.
When Betts was sixteen years old, he was sent to prison for his part in a carjacking. In solitary confinement, he discovered poetry.
In 2019, Jonathan was released from prison. Our producer shadowed him to learn what emancipation feels like after two decades of being locked up.
A dozen years after “The New Jim Crow,” Michelle Alexander considers its impact. Plus, a conversation with Reginald Dwayne Betts, who discovered poetry in solitary confinement. (article)