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New Jersey Prisons repeal ban on The New Jim Crow after ACLU intervention

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New Jersey has the worst disparity ratio between incarnated black and white youth, 30 to 1 respectively. The disparity between incarcerated adults is not much better: 12 African-Americans are incarcerated for every white person imprisoned – the worst ratio in the nation. That perhaps helps to explain why Michelle Alexander's 2010 award-winning book about racial discrimination towards black Americans has lead to an epidemic of mass incarceration, "The New Jim Crow," has been banned in some New Jersey prisons.

The American Civil Liberties Union has condemned the decision for some prisons in New Jersey to ban the book as "unconstitutional and unconscionable." The book is featured on a list of reading materials prohibited for inmates to possess. The list was obtained by the ACLU after the organization received complaints about the issue,

"'The New Jim Crow' is an important work on the endemic racial bias of prison systems in the United States.1 New Jersey has the single worst Black-white racial disparity in incarceration in the country," a letter from the ACLU to the New Jersey Department of Corrections said. "For the state burdened with this systemic injustice to prohibit prisoners from reading a book about race and mass incarceration is grossly ironic, misguided, and harmful. It is also unconstitutional."

Link : https://www.salon.com/2018/01/08/aclu-blasts-unconstitutional-book-ban-in-new-jersey-prisons/

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