James Forman, Jr. is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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James Forman, Jr. is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Our penal system, with its black tinge, constitutes a profound racial injustice. But is it a new form of Jim Crow?
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