This seminal work documents the enormous financial and human toll of the get tough' movement, and argues for more humane - and productive - alternatives.'
An updated account of the explosion in America's prison population.
"A tremendously disturbing and important book. . . . The questions that it poses call for answers that too few of those in power have been brave enough to give."
—Jonathan Kozol
"An important book. The numbers tell a shocking story."
—The San Diego Union-Tribune
"Insightful. . . . Sheds new light on the relationship between drug use, sales, arrests, and race."
—Emerge
"Race to Incarcerate explains why prisoners have become commodities and why present policies are draining black communities of their young men."
—Julian Bond, Chair of the NAACP Board of Directors
