Obama’s State of the Union Should Honor Colleges That Give Prisoners a Chance

Authors

Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-6-2016

ISSN

0362-4331

Publisher

New York Times

Language

en-US

Abstract

President Obama should invite Max Kenner, the founder of the Bard Prison Initiative, to join the first lady at the State of the Union. The sharp growth in the prison population over the past two decades — despite a decrease in crime — has had a significant impact on growing racial and class inequality, creating, in the eyes of some, “the new Jim Crow.”

Recommended Citation

Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Obama’s State of the Union Should Honor Colleges That Give Prisoners a Chance , in New York Times (2016).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/19

Publisher URL

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/01/26/who-should-be-invited-to-the-state-of-the-union/obamas-state-of-the-union-should-honor-colleges-that-give-prisoners-a-chance