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The first time Ravi Shankar was arrested, he spoke out against racist policing on National Public Radio and successfully sued the city of New York. The second time, he was incarcerated when his promotion to full professor was finalized. During his ninety-day pretrial confinement at the Hartford Correctional Centera level 4, high-security urban jail in Connecticuthe met men who shared harrowing and heart-felt stories. The experience taught him about the persistence of structural racism, the limitations of mass media, and the pervasive traumas of twenty-first-century daily life. Shankars bold and complex self-portraitand portrait of Americachallenges us to rethink our complicity in the criminal justice system and mental health policies that perpetuate inequity and harm. Read more