{"id":16303,"date":"2017-01-30T19:33:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T00:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rikersfilm.org\/?page_id=16303"},"modified":"2017-05-01T12:37:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T16:37:04","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/rikers\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=”” el_class=”rikers-reporting”][vc_column width=”9\/12″][vc_column_text el_class=”page-intro”]For a fuller understanding of incarceration in the United States, explore the books below. Written by experts in their respective fields, each book will provide a deeper exploration into the epidemic of imprisonment, both here and abroad.<\/p>\n

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The United States locks up more people than any other country in world. It has 5 percent of the world\u2019s population but more than 20 percent of the world\u2019s incarcerated population. \u201cIf you want to understand America\u2019s incarceration crisis, RIKERS is a good place to start,\u201d says Bill Moyers. These books are a good place to continue.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/12″][vc_raw_html]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[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=”” el_class=”rikers-reporting”][vc_column width=”9\/12″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness<\/h3>\n

by Michelle Alexander<\/h5>\n

In this New York Times<\/em> bestseller, civil rights lawyer, advocate and legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that America\u2019s criminal justice system functions as a new type of racial control, targeting black men through the \u201cwar on drugs.\u201d Although Jim Crow laws are a thing of the past, she says millions of blacks arrested for minor crimes remain marginalized and disfranchised, trapped by a criminal justice system that labels them felons for life and denies them basic rights and opportunities. In this seminal book, Alexander argues that nothing short of a major social movement is needed to end the mass incarceration of black Americans.\u00a0Read an excerpt of Alexander\u2019s book<\/a>. See Bill Moyers interview with Alexander on her book<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/12″][vc_single_image image=”15966″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=”” el_class=”rikers-reporting”][vc_column width=”9\/12″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption<\/h3>\n
by Bryan Stevenson<\/h5>\n

In this award-winning and New York Times<\/em> bestselling memoir, Stevenson recounts his struggle against injustice as an activist lawyer. Founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative<\/a>, Stevenson and his staff have won reversals, relief or release for over 115 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row. This book focuses on one of his first cases, that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn\u2019t commit. The case drew Stevenson into a tangle of conspiracy, political machinations, and legal brinksmanship \u2014 and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. Read an excerpt of Stevenson\u2019s book<\/a>. Watch Stevenson’s TED Talk<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/12″][vc_single_image image=”15971″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=”” el_class=”rikers-reporting”][vc_column width=”9\/12″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World<\/h3>\n
by Baz Dreisinger<\/h5>\n

Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, professor and journalist Baz Dreisinger travelled to prisons in nine countries over two years. As founder of the groundbreaking Prison-to-College-Pipeline<\/a> her goal was to better understand a range of approaches to penal reform through the lens of America\u2019s mass incarceration system. From serving as a restorative justice facilitator in a notorious South African prison and working with genocide survivors in Rwanda, to launching a creative writing class in an overcrowded Ugandan prison and coordinating a drama workshop for women prisoners in Thailand, Dreisinger examines the human stories of incarcerated men and women and those who imprison them. Read an excerpt of Dreisinger\u2019s book<\/a>. Watch video of Dreisinger discussing the book<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/12″][vc_single_image image=”15972″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=”” el_class=”rikers-reporting”][vc_column width=”9\/12″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity<\/h3>\n
by Alison Flowers<\/h5>\n

In this book, award-winning investigative journalist Alison Flowers tells the stories of three men and one woman who were exonerated after collectively spending 70 years in prison for crimes they did not commit. Flowers examines how these individuals struggle to rebuild their lives and search for meaning after the trauma they endured. She also sheds light on how these wrongful convictions and exonerations affect families and communities. Read an excerpt<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/12″][vc_single_image image=”16222″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=”” el_class=”rikers-reporting”][vc_column width=”9\/12″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America<\/h3>\n
by Ernest Drucker<\/h5>\n

Ernest Drucker\u2019s A Plague of Prisons<\/em> applies the concepts and tools of public health that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis, and AIDS to make the case that our current unprecedented level of imprisonment has become an epidemic. Drucker argues that imprisonment\u2014originally conceived as a response to the crimes of individuals\u2014has become mass incarceration: a destabilizing force that undermines families and communities, damaging the very social structures that prevent crime.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/12″][vc_single_image image=”16273″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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