Locked In

Details

Author(s):
Publish Date:
August 7, 2017
Publication Title:
The American Interest
Format:
Book Review
Citation(s):
  • Richard Thompson Ford, Locked In (review of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman, Jr.), The American Interest, August 7, 2017.

Abstract

“Racism” is the easy answer to the question of how America’s prisons got so full of African Americans. A new book offers a more complex and hopeful view.