1. The Cruel Hand by Michelle Alexander
While the realities ex-criminals face after paying their debt to society are not color based, they are just as harsh as those faced by blacks post slavery, Alexander therefore correctly likens the struggles of these ex-criminals to those of free slaves during the Jim Crow era. ... Through legislation like the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 and the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998, the U.S. government has allowed public housing agencies to deny housing and evict not only felons, "but people believed to be using drugs or abusing alcohol-whether they have been convicted of ...
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