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Incarceration
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Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.
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This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. It is about how easily we condemn people in this country and the injustice we create when we allow fear, anger, and distance to shape the way we treat the most vulnerable among us. It's also about a dramatic period in our recent history, a period that indelibly marked the lives of millions of Americans--of all races, ages, and sexes--and the American psyche as a whole.
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― Just Mercy
― Just Mercy
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