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Policing and Mass Incarceration

Photo by Scott Rodgerson on Unsplash

September 2021

Poetry

Benediction, Eastern Correctional

"Seated in a circle in the small room allowed us, the men wear their prison greens, like gas station attendants..." Ingrid Blaufarb Hughes
Poetry

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Dear Mr./Ms. [Insert Name Here]: We are sorry writing to inform youof the death of your son/daughter [Choose one]. As… Katherine Shehadeh
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Forum, September 2021

Letters from our readers. Staff
Viewpoint

An Insufficient and Impromptu View

Is there such a thing as a “good” police force or prison? William Kimbro
Quaker Book Reviews

Race, Systemic Violence, and Retrospective Justice: An African American Quaker Scholar-Activist Challenges Conventional Narratives

By Harold D. Weaver Jr. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 465), 2020. 34 pages. $7.50/pamphlet; $7/eBook. The title of Harold Weaver’s…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

Quaker Book Reviews

Cultivating Sanctuary: Hallowed Places and Inner States

By Gunilla Norris. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 466), 2020. 27 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. Friend Gunilla Norris has blessed us once again:…

Reviewed by William Shetter

Quaker Book Reviews

Passion and Partings: The Dying Sayings of Early Quakers

By Jane Mace. Quacks Books, 2020. 142 pages. $19.99/paperback. Available at pendlehill.org. Most Friends are familiar with memorial minutes: the…

Reviewed by Thomas Hamm

Quaker Book Reviews

Pillars: How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus

By Rachel Pieh Jones. Plough Publishing House, 2021. 280 pages. $18/paperback; $10/eBook. Rachel Pieh Jones’s book Pillars: How Muslim Friends…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

Quaker Book Reviews

The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder

By Richard Rohr. Franciscan Media, 2020. 224 pages. $18.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Richard Rohr, a Franciscan priest and founder of the Center…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

Quaker Book Reviews

Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America

By Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin’s Press, 2020. 240 pages. $25.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook.  The murder of George Floyd, which became a…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

Quaker Book Reviews

Just Us: An American Conversation

By Claudia Rankine. Graywolf Press, 2020. 360 pages. $30/hardcover; $20/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Claudia Rankine’s latest book, Just Us: An American Conversation,…

Reviewed by David Etheridge

Quaker Book Reviews

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

By Wes Moore with Erica L. Green. One World, 2020. 320 pages.  $28/hardcover; $18/paperback; $4.99/eBook.   In April of 2015, I…

Reviewed by Rosalie Dance

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