
Locking Up Our Own
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Longlisted for the National Book Award
One of the New York Times Book Review''s 10 Best Books of 2017
Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of colour. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was suppo...
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Longlisted for the National Book Award
One of the New York Times Book Review''s 10 Best Books of 2017
Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of colour. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was suppo...