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Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Groups

Jim Crow Laws

Race
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It doesn't matter if that felony happened three weeks ago or thirty-five years ago - for the rest of your life, you've got to check that box, knowing full well the odds are sky-high your application is going straight to the trash.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Application

Felony

Odds

Trash

Years Ago

Life Your Rest

Box

Weeks

Check

Life Rest Your

Straight

Thirty-Five
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About 70% of those released from prison return within a few years, and the majority of those who return in some states do so in a matter of months because the challenges associated with mere survival on the outside are so immense.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Challenges

Survival

Years
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The dramatically different manner in which we, as a nation, responded to the crisis presented by drunk driving and the crisis caused by the emergence of crack cocaine speaks volumes about who we value, and who we view as disposable.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Different

Drunk

Views
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I believe that we need to think very seriously, particularly as folks of color and progressives, about building either a new party or a new movement that can hold the Democratic Party accountable or provide a meaningful alternative.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Democratic Party

Meaningful

Alternative

Believe I Believe New

Accountable

Progressives
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I believe the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as a very large swath of the American population, really wants to imagine that race and racial inequality is something we don't have to think about anymore, don't have to worry about anymore.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Inequality

Population

Supreme

Supreme Court

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