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"Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands."—Michelle AlexanderMore than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did this happen? As the director of The Sentencing Project, Marc Mauer has long been one of the country’s foremost experts on sentencing policy, race, and the criminal justice system. His book Race to Incarcerate has become the essential text for understanding the exponential growth of the U.S. prison system; Michelle Alexander, author of the bestselling The New Jim Crow, calls it "utterly indispensable." Now, Sabrina Jones, a member of the World War 3 Illustrated collective and an acclaimed author of politically engaged comics, has collaborated with Mauer to adapt and update the original book into a vivid and compelling comics narrative.
About the Author
Sabrina Jones has been writing and illustrating comics since the Reagan era. As a young art student, she was alarmed by the threats to women's reproductive rights, and joined a group of pro-choice activist artists called Carnival Knowledge. Wanting to cover women's issues in World War 3 Illustrated, editor Seth Tobocman convinced Sabrina to create her first comic strip. She has gone on to edit and contribute to many issues, including Bitchcraft, Female Complaints, and Life During Wartime.
?In the 1990s she co-founded Girltalk, an anthology of women's autobiographical comics, published by Fantagraphics.
?She has created nonfiction comics for Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World, Verso, 2005; The Real Cost of Prisons Project, 2006; Mixed Signals, a counter-recruitment tool in comic book form, Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation, The New Press, 2009; and FDR and the New Deal for Beginners, 2010.?Her first complete book is Isadora Duncan, A Graphic Biography, Hill & Wang, 2008.
She is working on a graphic adaptation of Race to Incarcerate, by Marc Mauer and the Sentencing Project.
?Born and raised in Philadelphia, Sabrina moved to New York to study painting at Pratt Institute, and later got an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She now lives in Brooklyn with novelist Steve Stern, and two cats, Percy and Jezebel. She paints scenery for film, theater and television, as a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
