Author Marc Mauer has agreed to sign at least 25 copies of the book for this offer!
A tremendously disturbing and important book about the devastating increase in our prison population... The questions that it poses call for answers that too few of those in power have been brave enough to give.
- Jonathan Kozol on the original Race to Incarcerate
The United States' rate of incarceration is the highest in the world. Why and how did this happen? Marc Mauer's Race to Incarcerate, first published in 1999, has become the essential text for understanding the exponential growth of the US prison system and a canonical work for those active in the US criminal justice reform movement.
Now, Sabrina Jones, a member of the World War 3 Illustrated collective and an acclaimed author of politically engaged comics, has collaborated with Mauer to adapt and update the original book into a vivid, engaging comics narrative designed to reach new audiences. Jones's dramatic artwork adds passion and compassion to the complex story of four decades of prison expansion and its corrosive effect on generations of Americans. In this highly accessible format, "Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling" presents a compelling argument that mass incarceration has replaced the kind of civic institutions and economic welfare crucial to creating a just society.
Sabrina Jones is the author of Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography and a contributor to World War 3 Illustrated, Wobblies!, The Real Cost of Prisons, Studs Terkel's Working (The New Press), FDR and the New Deal for Beginners, Yiddishkeit, and Radical Jesus. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Marc Mauer is the executive director of The Sentencing Project in Washington, DC. He is the author of Race to Incarcerate, a semifinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the co-editor, with Meda Chesney-Lind, of Invisible Punishment (both available from The New Press). He lives in the Washington, DC, area.
Michelle Alexander, author of the New York Times bestseller "The New Jim Crow," wrote a foreword for the book.
