associate professor of law at the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. In Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, The New Press, 2010, she illustrates the devastating effects that mass incarceration in America has on blacks, especially black men. Alexander argues that the current mass incarceration of blacks is very similar to the past slavery system of blacks, and is very similar to the new Jim Crow era that followed it. Alexander further argues that “slavery has not ended for blacks,…
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