Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time

Love this book needed it for one of my classes very great information and analysis.

I was forced to read this book as part of a college English class, because left-wing activists have infected all levels of our education system.

This is a great introduction to mass incarceration. A good overview, a few stories, and enough facts and figures so you are armed with facts, but not so many to bog down the narrative.Kilgore also does a great job exploring the causes of the growth of the system, deconstructing the term "Prison Industrial Complex," and exploring alternatives, including restorative justice, transformative justice, and abolition.Final note: It took me a month to finish this book. During that month I visited 6 prisons, and reading about prisons was not exactly the best way to unwind at the end of a long, emotionally draining day of ..... visiting prisons. But doing so puts the immediacy of the horrors I saw everyday in perfect context. It is a good, quick read.

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Whether you know nothing about mass incarceration or have an advanced understanding of mass incarceration, this book is for you. Kilgore does a beautiful job of composing this book in a way that is absolutely approachable and could even be a fast read for some. However, don't let this approachable style fool you. The text is rich with perspective. Kilgore presents the complexity of mass incarceration in a way that is balanced and informative. Yet, the message of this text is not lost. And that message is that mass incarceration is truly the civil rights struggle of our time and it is our urgent responsibility to critically engage with it.

Book Club! We are loving it! The non-bias opinion of the author makes it so easy to read and understand!

I bought this book because it was required for a class. It was very well written and I would recommend it.

This is an important book for this day. Most of us are unaware of the realities origin and current condition of the American system of incarceration. This eye-opening book sheds very necessary light on the matter.