Recommended Reading:
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow. New York, NY: The New Press, 2010.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” The Atlantic. October 2015. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration/403246/
Gottschalk, Marie. Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Sources used:
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow. New York, NY: The New Press, 2010.
Ball, Molly. “Do the Koch Brothers Really Care About Criminal-Justice Reform?” The Atlantic. March 3, 2015. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/do-the-koch-brothers-really-care-about-criminal-justice-reform/386615/
Baum, Dan. “Legalize It All.” Harpers. April 2016. https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
Bibas, Stephanos. “The Truth about Mass Incarceration.” The National Review. September 16, 2015. https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/09/mass-incarceration-prison-reform/
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” The Atlantic. October 2015. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration/403246/
“Criminal Justice Fact Sheet.” NAACP. Accessed December, 2017. http://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/.
Eisen, Lauren-Brook “L.B.” and James Cullen. “Update: Changes in State Imprisonment Rates.” Brennan Center for Justice. Accessed December 2017. https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/update-changes-state-imprisonment-rates
“Fair Sentencing Act.” American Civil Liberties Union. Accessed December 2017. https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/drug-law-reform/fair-sentencing-act
Gonnerman, Jennifer. “Before the Law.” The New Yorker. October 6, 2014. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law
Gottschalk, Marie. Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Grawert, Ames and Natasha Camhi. “Criminal Justice in President Trump’s First 100 Days.” Brennan Center for Justice. April 20, 2017. https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/criminal-justice-president-trumps-first-100-days
"Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Rate." World Prison Brief. Accessed December 2017. http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison_population_rate?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All
Jacobson, Louis. “Donald Trump wrong that murder rate is highest in 47 years.” Politifact. February 8, 2017. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/feb/08/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-murder-rate-highest-47-years/
Kilgore, Ed. “Can Trump and Sessions Kill Criminal-Justice Reform? Probably Not.” New York Magazine. August 3, 2017. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/trump-and-sessions-cant-kill-criminal-justice-reform.html
Kulze, Elizabeth. “How Crack Vs. Coke Sentencing Unfairly Targets Poor People.” Vocativ. February 22, 2015. https://www.vocativ.com/underworld/drugs/crack-vs-coke-sentencing/index.html
Lopez, German. “Under Trump and Sessions, federal prosecutors are ramping up the war on drugs.” Vox. October 24, 2017. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/24/16534812/trump-sessions-war-on-drugs
“Mandatory Minimums.” Families Against Mandatory Minimums. June 18, 2018. https://famm.org/mandatory-minimums/
National Research Council. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2014. https://www.nap.edu/catalog/18613/the-growth-of-incarceration-in-the-united-states-exploring-causes.
“QuickFacts United States.” United States Census Bureau. Accessed December 2017. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217
Richmond, Cedric. “READ: Congressional Black Caucus chair’s letter to Trump.” CNN. September 28, 2017. https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/politics/congressional-black-caucus-letter-trump-race/index.html
Rubin, Jennifer. “Commentary: What Donald Trump gets wrong about crime.” April 18, 2017. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-crime-rates-chicago-20170418-story.html
Sakala, Leah. “Breaking Down Mass Incarceration in the 2010 Census: State-by-State Incarceration Rates by Race/Ethnicity.” Prison Policy Initiative. May 28, 2014. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/rates.html
Trump, Donald J. “The Inaugural Address.” The White House. January 20, 2017. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/the-inaugural-address/
Vagins, Deborah J. and Jesselyn McCurdy. “Cracks in the System: Twenty Years of the Unjust Federal Crack Cocaine Law.” American Civil Liberties Union. October 2006. https://www.aclu.org/other/cracks-system-20-years-unjust-federal-crack-cocaine-law
Wagner, Peter and Bernadette Rabuy. "Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2016." Prison Policy Initiative. March 14, 2016. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2016.html
Walmsley, Roy. “Global Incarceration and Prison Trends.” Forum on Crime and Society 3, nos. 1 & 2 (December 2003): 65 - 78. http://www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/forum/forum3_Art3.pdf
“War on Drugs.” History.com. Accessed December 2017. https://www.history.com/topics/the-war-on-drugs
Wildeman, Christopher. "Mass Incarceration." Oxford Bibliographies. April 24, 2012. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396607/obo-9780195396607-0033.xml
Wing, Nick. "Our Bail System Is Leaving Innocent People To Die In Jail Because They're Poor." Huffington Post. February 23, 2017. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cash-bail-jail-deaths_us_57851f50e4b0e05f052381cb
Other sources consulted:
Ghandnoosh, Nazgol. “Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Policies.” The Sentencing Project. 2014. https://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Race-and-Punishment.pdf
Glazek, Christopher. “Raise the Crime Rate.” n+1 13, (Winter 2012). https://nplusonemag.com/issue-13/politics/raise-the-crime-rate/
Gopnik, Adam. “How We Misunderstand Mass Incarceration.” The New Yorker. April 10, 2017. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/10/how-we-misunderstand-mass-incarceration