Date: 09-26-2024
New book is divided into six sessions representing a stage of the criminal justice system: police, prosecutors, public defenders, judges, prisons, and "aftermath," or the lifelong consequences of having been imprisoned. |
From Yale News:
When James Forman Jr. was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor many years ago, she encouraged him to go to work for the Department of Justice or a national civil rights organization. No, he told her, he wanted to work as a public defender so he could represent poor people facing criminal charges there in Washington, D.C.
When O’Connor asked why, he explained that he saw it as “the unfinished work of the civil rights movement.” It was 1994, the tail end of a long tough-on-crime era, and the share of the nation’s prison population who were Black was approaching 50%.
“The criminal justice system, I told her, was where today’s civil rights struggle would be fought,” Forman wrote in his 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.” Continue reading >>>
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