Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America is a 2017 book by James Forman Jr. on support for the 1970s War on Crime from Black leaders in American cities. It won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction[1] and the Lillian Smith Book Award.[2]

Locking Up Our Own
The book cover for Locking Up Our Own
AuthorJames Forman Jr.
SubjectsIncarceration in the United States
African-American studies
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
April 2017
Pages320
AwardsPulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Lillian Smith Book Award
ISBN9780374189976
OCLC1242331020
364.97308996073
LC ClassHV9950
WebsiteOfficial website

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