Dan Berger is an associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington Bothell. He is the author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era and Rethinking the American Prison Movement, among other books. Follow him on Twitter: @dnbrgr.
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