The effects of this mass incarceration and the poor conditions within prisons bleed back into our communities. Khalilah Brown-Dean's research finds that communities where higher numbers of the incarcerated are drawn form and return to suffer from lower political engagement and are dis-empowered beyond simply those who are incarcerated. Incarceration is not the issue of those who become imprisoned; it is a problem that affects the families and communities they leave behind.
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