“This week, on the heels of Black Lives Matter activists calling former President Bill Clinton to account for the ravages of the 1994 Crime Bill, and in the wake of his heated defense that this policy was needed to keep black kids from killing other black kids, we have a new opportunity to reflect on why remembering the roots of today’s carceral crisis is so critical for confronting it today. There is an extraordinary public installation opening this Thursday in New York City called States of Incarceration.”