related_tweet: more african american adults are under correctional control today - in prison or jail, on probation or parole - than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the civil war began. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  michelle alexander, the new jim crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness #reading