Racial injustice is a prevalent theme in the majority of cases Stevenson focuses on in the memoir, and is particularly relevant in Walter's wrongful conviction. In part due to the Equal Justice Initiative's social justice work, by 2014, mass incarceration rates had stabilized. Stevenson traces a historical line from this practice back to chattel slavery in the U.S. Impoverished people and people of color are over-represented in prisons, and this imprisonment is profitable to the companies that build, own, and maintain prisons. He also explores how many people are imprisoned for nonviolent offenses, as well as children serving adult life sentences. He details the dramatic rise in the number of people imprisoned since he began his legal career in the early 1980s. locking Americans in prison at historically unheard-of rates-throughout the memoir. Stevenson returns to the theme of mass incarceration-i.e.
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