Heather Ann Thompson

Heather Ann Thompson is an associate professor of African American studies and history at Temple University. She is the author of a forthcoming history of the 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion and its legacy.

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Inner-City Violence in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Harsh criminal-justice policies have thrown America's poorest urban communities into chaos.
- Heather Ann Thompson
- October 30, 2014
Reuters

How Prisons Change the Balance of Power in America

The 14th Amendment, when combined with the War on Crime, has paradoxically disenfranchised vast swaths of the population and given the rural, white areas surrounding the prisons unforeseen political power.
- Heather Ann Thompson
- October 7, 2013

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Heather Ann Thompson

Inner-City Violence in the Age of Mass Incarceration

How Prisons Change the Balance of Power in America