Do you watch Law and Order? Take a break for a few episodes and read this book instead.

This book discusses the effects of the war on drugs, rising incarceration rates, affirmative action, color-blindness, and a number of other issues.

Drugs, jail, judges, justice, and much more.

I learned quite a few eye-opening facts while reading. Here's a couple: police officers can discriminate based on race so long as it is not the only determining factor of their actions (e.g. "I arrested him because he was black and wearing a hooded sweatshirt") and judges have retired due to their unwillingness to continue obeying mandatory minimum sentence laws.

I do wish the data behind this discussion was a little more prevalent in this book. Statistics were definitely discussed multiple times, but they were mostly mentioned in passing and infrequently reiterated.