The second quote is one of the reasons I have already decided I like this author’s style. In one of the preludes to the introduction, she said that this book would provide data for people that debate the point but lack off hand evidence to support it. This sentence starts with this bold quote and even goes on to claim even harsher conditions. Though this wasn’t the first sentence with a superscript to refer to a citation in the back of the book, this assertion struck me enough to give them a good look and conclude that I could trust her sources, and it served to cement for me her already credible ethos of being a civil rights lawyer and consulting with many others, including incarcerated felons, as sources.                

                This passage also came after a break in the book. Rather than indent the line like she did previously, she made it clear she was starting off a new assertion. This piece of credible evidence was what drew me further into the book and made me want to pay this book its due amount of attention, because it made me think of what it would be like to sit in a classroom and look around and imagine one in three or, as she says happens in worse cities, one in two of them being incarcerated. 

From Context I could assume it meant like an old saying or lesson, but with the actual definition, it is clear that the diction conveys her belief that this saying is not just an old saying, but that it is true and accurate.

Example: As I saw the whale of a man walk by our table of fellow track runners, my friend whispered the adage “Eat to live, don’t live to eat.”