I just discovered that I am an expert in being oblivious. (Oxford English Dictionary definition—oblivious: not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around one.) After decades of disdaining awareness and concern, I have finally awakened to the uniquely American crime of mass incarceration. Of course we’ve all seen glimpses of prison life through movies or in books, but nobody wants to keep thinking about the rapes and beatings, gang tortures, clandestine drug ab