The line from slavery to Jim Crow to the War on Drugs to mass incarceration was straight and unbroken. But what of the voice to challenge it? Was there another straight and unbroken line, this one from the abolitionist movement to the civil rights struggle to the present day? This book is the fruit of a multi-year dialogue among Christian churches in the United States, addressing-from theological perspectives-mass incarceration as an issue in need of radical reform.