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For reasons that seem to have little to do with crime or crime rates, we in the United States have chosen to lock up more than two million of our citizens. The U.S. has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world, and it is continuing to rise. Michelle Alexander, a legal scholar and former civil rights attorney, examines this phenomenon, and offers her thoughts on what she believes to be the underlying racial biases that drive the U.S. criminal justice system. Alexander’s lecture, on Tuesday, Nov. 13th at 7:30 p.m. in 182 Lillis Hall, will be based on her recent book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010).
