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Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th  African American Intellectual History Society

What the Insanity of Mass Incarceration Has Done To Us  YES! Magazine

Why Life After Incarceration Is Just Another Prison, with Reuben Jonathan Miller  University of Chicago News

In ‘A Woman on the Outside,’ a Philadelphian addresses impacts of incarceration  WHYY

How We Misunderstand Mass Incarceration  The New Yorker

Professor’s book inspires film on mass incarceration of poor  Harvard Gazette

Did the 1994 crime bill cause mass incarceration?  Brookings

Michelle Alexander: “A System of Racial and Social Control”  PBS

'Halfway Home' Makes Case That The Formerly Incarcerated Are Never Truly Free  NPR

Racial disparities in diversion: A research roundup  Prison Policy Initiative

News - Tracing Impact: Mass Incarceration and its Social Effect  Hamilton College

13th: The Rise of the Mass Incarceration State  Socialist Alternative

Ava DuVernay’s Documentary “13th” About Mass Incarceration Shortlisted for an Oscar  Democracy Now!

“Rikers: An American Jail”: A New Film on Mass Incarceration  African American Intellectual History Society

This Year’s Oscar Film Nominees Highlight the Shared History of Black American Life and Mass Incarceration  Vera Institute

Rethinking the narratives of mass incarceration  University of Chicago News

Demystifying the 13th Amendment and Its Impact on Mass Incarceration  African American Intellectual History Society

Ava DuVernay on How '13th' Reframes American History  The Atlantic

Review: ‘13TH,’ the Journey From Shackles to Prison Bars (Published 2016)  The New York Times

‘Time’ Review: What We Really Mean When We Say Mass Incarceration (Published 2020)  The New York Times

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes | How Prisons Affect Lives Outside the Gates | Independent Lens  PBS

“Just Mercy” panel asks audience to think about mass incarceration, racial injustice  Sewanee Purple

Mass Incarceration Was Always Designed to Work This Way  Literary Hub

Prisons without Crime: Brett Story on Her Genre-Subverting Doc on Mass Incarceration, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes  Filmmaker Magazine

A Radically Different Way to Look at Incarceration  The Atlantic

Inside the Battle to Close Rikers  The Marshall Project

Locking People Up Is No Way to Treat Mental Illness  The Atlantic

Sci-Fi Short Film Interprets How Mass Incarceration Affects the Black Family  The Indypendent