From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

The "Land of the Free" has become home to the world's largest prison system, with one in every 31 adults under some form of penal control, including one in 11 African American men.

Elizabeth Hinton's groundbreaking book reveals the shocking truth behind this crisis - and how it all started with Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs at the height of the civil rights era.

Challenging the commonly held belief that America's prison problem began with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an unlikely source: social welfare programs designed to foster equality and economic opportunity.

But these well-intentioned initiatives had a dark side - they inadvertently contributed to the criminalization of poverty and the growth of the prison system.

Don't miss this eye-opening exposé that will change the way you think about justice, inequality, and the true cost of the "land of the free."