Religion and the War on Drugs, Faith Based Visitation During Early Mass Incarceration, early 1980s
Rev. Consuella York at Cook County Jail and a white Christian minister visiting a Black incarcerated man in an unidentified jail, circa 1981, record how religious outreach functioned inside American carceral institutions as the War on Drugs accelerated jail and prison expansion. The strongest historical subject here is not religion.....
