Class of 2022 Mission/Focus During Learning Lab II, the Class of 2022 will focus on the leadership demonstrated in many different aspects of reform in relation to mass incarceration. They will analyze the proposed reforms to the policies that created mass incarceration as well as efforts to mitigate the harsh impacts throughout many communities, especially the disproportionate impacts on poor and racial minority communities. They hope to learn the variety of steps national leaders are taking to reform our criminal justice system and alleviate the impacts of mass incarceration.

Required Reading List: Due September 18, 2019

• - “13th” – on Netflix
• - Mass Incarceration in the US
• - The Caging of America

• - Mass Incarceration, Visualized
• - The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
• - The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality

• - How America’s justice system is rigged against the poor
• - Guilty And Charged

• - Prosecutors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
• - Institutionalized: Mental Health Behind Bars
• - Drug Offenses/War on Drugs
  • —How the war on drugs affected incarceration rates
  • —Why you can’t blame mass incarceration on the war on drugs

• - Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration
• - Capitalizing on Mass Incarceration: U.S. Growth in Private Prisons

• - The First Step Act, explained
• - Why today’s criminal justice reform efforts won’t end mass incarceration
• - How We Misunderstand Mass Incarceration

• - Trends in U.S. Corrections

• - School to Prison Pipeline
  • —The Epidemic of Mass Incarceration in the United States
  • —American Kids & The School-To-Prison Pipeline

• - Serial, Season 3

• - The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• - Locked In by John Pfaff
• - Charged by Emily Bazelon
• - Courtroom 302 by Steve Bogira