ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
This book was well written and made easy to understand for a younger audience.

We can be lead to believe by our history books that racism is over, that the Emancipation Proclamation immediately ended slavery. This book endeavors to show us otherwise. Lewis discusses the prison industrial complex and how Jim Crow laws contributed to the modern system. Now, all we get here is a very brief overview. This makes it accessible to reluctant readers but paints an incomplete picture. For instance, the only examples of Jim Crow laws we get are segregation in bus seating and schools. Even so, it encourages kids to think critically and question the corruption in our system which makes this inherently valuable.

This book as appropriately written for young readers to learn about incarceration and things that have been going on in everyday world. It is sensitive but written in a real context that doesn't sugar anything.