Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling by Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer (2013) was written in order to explain how the criminal justice’s high and discriminatory incarceration rate has developed. Mauer is the executive director of the Sentencing Project in Washington, DC. This projected is a nonprofit organization trying to reform the harsh sentencing practices by interpreting the way society thinks about crime. Mauer has succeeded in showing how and why the United States prison population is the way it is today. He begins by talking about how the prison population increased rapidly in the 1970's because of the political stand point of "tough on crime" and "tough on drugs". At the end Mauer and Jones turn the corner and link crime
