For this weekly assignment, students should consider how the criminal justice system operates to dismiss claims of racial bias. Specifically, under what grounds have defendants petitioned for racial bias? And more importantly, what were the outcomes of those petitions? Second, what are the parallels and differences of Jim Crow to mass incarceration? Provide three separate examples from the two chapters. Please provide multiple examples from each chapter. Provide the examples with the page numbers from the book below.

The New Jim Crow - Chapters 3 & 5 (85 pages)