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by Michelle Alexander onMarch 12, 2012
Author Michelle Alexander writes in a New York Times op-ed that the legal system would likely grind to a halt if hundreds of thousands of people charged with crimes refused to plea out and insisted on their right to a trial.
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January 17, 2012
Journal-isms: Alex P. Kellogg, one of NPR's two black male on-air journalists, has left the network.
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April 6, 2011
It's not just fairness -- although more black men are in jail than were slaves in 1850. The cost is driving states to bankruptcy.
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April 9, 2010
In an excerpt from her new book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander argues that prison has become the tool to minimize black political power.
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