The Jailer's Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America

by Kevin B. Smith

How does a Black man in Austin get sent to prison on a 70-year sentence for stealing a tuna sandwich, likely costing Texas taxpayers roughly a million dollars? In America, your liberty--or even your life--may be forfeit not simply because of what you do, but where you do it. If the same man had run off with a lobster roll from a lunch counter in Maine it's unlikely that he'd be spending the rest of his life behind bars.

The U.S. incarcerates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538192381
• ISBN13: 9781538192382
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages