How did the land of the free become the home of the world's largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: not the War on Drugs of the Reagan administration but the War on Crime that began during Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
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About Elizabeth Hinton
Elizabeth Hinton is Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
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