Incarceration comics.

• Author: Walker, Jesse
• Position: Briefly Noted - Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling - Brief article - Book review

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Marc Mauer's 1999 book Race to Incarcerate is one of the most widely cited critiques of the trend toward mass incarceration. Now Sabrina Jones, a contributor to the anti-authoritarian comic book World War 3 Illustrated, has turned the text into a striking graphic novel.

Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling (New Press) hits Mauer's key points: how prisons were invented by reformers but quickly became centers of abuse; why it's hard to credit the tough-on-crime policies of the 1970s with an actual reduction in crime; how incarceration rips small-time offenders from the social networks that...