Es su nave de descarga de audiolibros. Locking U

<b>Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction</b><br /><b>Long-listed for the National Book Award</b><br /><b>Finalist, Current Interest Category, Los Angeles Times Book Prizes</b><br /><b>One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2017</b><b></b><br /><b>Short-listed for the Inaugural Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice</b><br /><b></b><br />Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In <i>Locking Up Our Own</i>, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation's urban centers.<br /><br />Forman shows us that the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office amid a surge in crime and drug addiction. Many prominent black officials, including Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry and federal prosecutor Eric Holder, feared tha