Prison Literature in America. ... The difference in numbers over two decades reveals the corrosive effect of our incarceration epidemic on the health of the African American community. ... In a country less than 13 percent blacks, one half of the prison population is African American. ... The funding of Higher Education and corrections and its impact on African American men makes perfectly clearly the society's investment priority's producer commensurate results. ... Mississippi made it a crime for African Americans to be unemployed or drunk, or to have run away, neglected chil...

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