She then connected me with the American Civil Liberties Union, which produced a report on life without parole in the United States, in which I was featured. The report was released in November , and I was granted clemency a month later. The New Jersey prison system never offered a reason for why they banned The New Jim Crow, a decision which they undid after an outcry this week. Did it make me want to fight? But it made me want to fight not with my fist but with my mind, my heart. Thanks to the book, I have dedicated my life to fighting for freedom.
Not just my own, which I now have obtained, but that of others serving life sentences. People who are blind to the fact — as I once was — that the war on drugs was never against drugs, but against people of color. Perhaps that is the reason why prisons banned the book: Wainwright , U. Michigan , U.
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