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ColorLines Review: The Real Cost of Prisons Comix: Vivid comics show the impacts of mass incarceration on communities of color

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Issue #52, Sept/Oct 2009 The Real Cost of Prisons Comix By Jenna M. Lloyd Vivid comics show the impacts of mass incarceration on communities of color. September 2, 2009 Locking 2.3 million people behind bars is a vast social project. It takes work to hide the equivalent of a large US city in plain sight. The explanations served up on the nightly news and by tough-on-crime politicians graphically focus on violent crime, despite its decline. More prisons, they say, will create safe and drug free communities. The Real Cost of Prisons Comix (PM Press), winner of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency?s PASS Award, asks whether the billions of dollars invested annually in mass incarceration delivers on these promises. Hidden behind these fear-provoking images, the book documents the steep human costs exacted on individual health and freedom, family unity, and community well being...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 02, 2009 (boomark / email).