This is a FANTASTIC resource. It clearly and compellingly (that's a word right?) lays out the case for how our criminal justice system is fuckeddd. I haven't read the non-adapted version of [b:Race to Incarcerate|302013|Race to Incarcerate|Marc Mauer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1344716602s/302013.jpg|293077] but I have read [b:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness|6792458|The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness|Michelle Alexander|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328751532s/6792458.jpg|6996712] so a lot of this information was not necessarily new to me, but I liked the layout and structure of this, and the rough black & white illustrations & graphs really drive home the information.

I know this is an adapted version of the adult NF book, and so I'm guessing if you want footnotes for any of this, you have to check that out? I mean I think putting a bunch of footnotes in the GN itself would probably be cluttery, but there's like, nothing.

But I do like that the end gives concrete ways to reach out to prison inmates, and overall, this is great. Would recommend to socially-conscious teens but maybe also to adults who don't feel like reading New Jim Crow or the full-length version of Race to Incarcerate.