Michelle Alexander, Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University; author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceraton in the Age of Colorblindness (2010). She states that the U.S. has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world, and it is continuing to rise. She details her thoughts on what she believes to be the underlying racial biases that drive the U.S. criminal justice system. Alexander gave a talk titled “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” on November 13, 2012.