Michelle Alexander explains how the get-tough-on-crime policies were enacted in the 1970's were an effort to push back the gains of the Civil Rights Movement.
Michelle Alexander is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University. Source: BookTV: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Next week Tom Friedman lays out why a carbon tax could save America.
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