Sandra’s Reviews > The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness > Status Update

“Although the political dynamics that gave birth to the system date back to slavery, the drug war marked an important turning point in American history, one that cannot be measured simply by counting heads in prisons and jails.”

“it is the prison label, not the prison time that matters most if we are to understand the true scope and impact of mass incarceration”

“We find ourselves in this dangerous place not because something radically has occurred in our nation’s politics, but because so much has remained the same”