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• The House I Live in

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  For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Central Park Five

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  Chronicles America's complicated perceptions of race and crime through the story of the Central Park Five (now known as the Exonerated Five) –a group of Black and Latino teenagers wrongfully convicted of brutally raping a white woman in New York…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kids for Cash

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  In the wake of the shootings at Columbine High School, a small town in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania elected a charismatic judge who was hell-bent on keeping kids in line. Under his reign, more than 3,000 children were ripped from their families and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Broken on All Sides

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  America locks up more of its racial and ethnic minorities than any other country (including South Africa at the height of apartheid). Broken on All Sides explores the intersection of race and poverty within the criminal justice system. Presenting a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deadline

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  What would you do if you discovered that 13 people slated for execution had been found innocent? That was exactly the dilemma that Illinois Governor George Ryan faced in his final days in office. He, alone, was left to decide whether the remaining…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All American Boys

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Allegedly

  a Novel

  Jackson, Tiffany D.,

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  When Mary, a teenager living in a group home, becomes pregnant, authorities take another look at the crime for which Mary was convicted when she was nine years old.

• I Am Alfonso Jones

  Medina, Tony,

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  The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie,

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  After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.

• Dear Martin

  Stone, Nic,

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  Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.

• The Sun Does Shine

  How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

  Hinton, Anthony Ray,

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  With a foreword by his lawyer Bryan Stevenson, Hinton’s memoir The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times. Destined to be a classic memoir of wrongful imprisonment and freedom won,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Invisible No More

  Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color

  Ritchie, Andrea J.,

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  With a foreword by his lawyer Bryan Stevenson, Hinton’s memoir The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times. Destined to be a classic memoir of wrongful imprisonment and freedom won,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Burning Down the House

  the End of Juvenile Prison

  Bernstein, Nell

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  One in three American children will be arrested by the time they are twenty-three, and many will spend time locked inside horrific detention centers that defy everything we know about how to rehabilitate young offenders. In a clear-eyed indictment…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Charged

  the New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration

  Bazelon, Emily,

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  A renowned investigative journalist exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis. The system wasn't designed for this kind of unchecked power, and in Charged, Emily Bazelon shows that it is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Perilous Path

  Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law

  Ifill, Sherrilyn A.,

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  Drawing on their collective decades of work on civil rights issues as well as personal histories of rising from poverty and oppression, these leading lights of the legal profession and the fight for racial justice talk about the importance of…Read moreRead more of this annotation