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Donna Murch

Donna Murch is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers.

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Law & Justice, Race

Paying for Punishment

Debt still sends many people—especially black people—to jail.

Donna Murch

Race

Who’s to Blame for Mass Incarceration?

Michael Javen Fortner’s Black Silent Majority makes the controversial case that African Americans backed the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

Donna Murch

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