A good discussion of the growth of the police state and prison-industrial complex in the USA between Michelle Alexander and Bill Moyers. Watch the video. After civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander published her book The New Jim Crow in 2010 on our dehumanizing system of incarceration, she ignited a national conversation about justice in America and sparked a movement. In her book, Alexander explores how the war on drugs, “get-tough” sentencing policies and racism has created a caste system similar to that of our segregationist past. Since then, Alexander has traveled the country to meet
More…