The best-selling book, The New Jim Crow, argues that the U.S. criminal justice system reproduces the caste-like system of racial segregation known as “Jim Crow laws.” Using the war on drugs to justify cracking down on crime and carrying out mass deportation, successive government administrations have filled the prisons and detention centers with African-Americans and Latinos, permanently relegating them to the status of second-class citizens. An introduction to the newly released Spanish-language version of the book, entitled El Color de la Justicia, was written by Juan Cartagena, national president of LatinoJustice. Marco Vinicio González has the details from New York.
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