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Mass Incarceration, Visualized
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October 2, 2015
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2:33Now PlayingIn this animated interview, the sociologist Bruce Western explains the current inevitability of prison for certain demographics of young black men and how it's become a normal life event. "We've chosen the response of the deprivation of liberty for a historically aggrieved group, whose liberty in the United States was never firmly established to begin with," Western says.
In The Atlantic's October cover story, TaNehisi Coates explores the impact of mass incarceration on the black family. Read the full story
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