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James Forman Jr. (born James Robert Lumumba Forman; June 22, 1967) [2] is an American legal scholar currently on leave from serving as the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, which won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and a co-founder ...
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- James Robert Lumumba Forman, June 22, 1967 (age 56), New York City, New York, U.S.
Apr 5, 2024 · 6. James Forman Jr. is the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law. He attended public schools in Detroit and New York City before graduating from the Atlanta Public Schools. After attending Brown University and Yale Law School, he joined the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C., where for six years he represented both juveniles and adults ...
James Forman Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction for his book Locking Up Our Own, which explores the history and consequences of the war on crime in black America.
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Apr 11, 2017 · By James Forman Jr. Illustrated. 306 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $27. James Forman Jr. divides his superb and shattering first book, “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black ...
James Forman Jr. is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the author of the best-selling book Locking Up Our Own, which exposes the racial and economic disparities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Learn about his background, his work, and his views on criminal justice reform.
Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. In "Locking Up Our Own," he seeks to understand why.
Nov 20, 2018 · When James Forman Jr., a former Georgetown Law and current Yale Law faculty member, was working as a public defender in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, he represented a 15-year-old client named Brandon who had pled guilty to gun and marijuana possession. Forman was requesting probation; the prosecutor wanted Brandon sent to Oak Hill, D.C.’s now-notorious juvenile facility. The judge chose ...
