- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
When the family gets pulled over by the police, Richie warns Jojo that “they going to chain you.” After they are let go, Richie and Jojo talk about Pop and Parchman. In this passage, Richie explains that sometimes it seems as if Parchman (or the racist American justice system in general) has changed, but that in reality it hasn’t actually changed. Life at Parchman may be slightly different in the present than it was in Richie’s time, but the principle of arbitrary, unjust, and violent incarceration remains the same. This in turn connects Parchman and mass incarceration to the legacy…