Incarceration and Race in Michigan

"Incarceration and Race in Michigan arrives at a significant moment in activism and advocacy around prisons in our state, while struggles for access to higher education, the sentencing of children as adults, and the traumas of an aging prison population reverberate across Michigan. This book provides much needed examinations of struggles around mental health, the effects of solitary confinement, and the suffering youth in our prisons. It also puts the creative writing and visual art of currently and formerly incarcerated people in meaningful conversation with the work of scholars and activists."
—Ashley Lucas, Associate Professor and Director of the Prison Creative Arts Project, University of Michigan

"Lynn Orilla Scott and Curtis Stokes point us to the you are here spot on Michigan’s map of incarceration and race. They navigate the past and present destructive and unjust system while offering a framework to build meaningful change for the future. This book is for all of us: scholars, practitioners, incarcerated communities, wardens, parole officers, and lawmakers. The map is in our hands, let’s work together. I’ll meet you here!"
—Guillermo Delgado, Academic Specialist in Community & Socially Engaged Arts, Michigan State University