In life there are some clear paths that we can walk down today to reach a better place, while others are less clear, dangerous even, yet no less important for us to travel.
Beyond my work with jobs, food and vets, few things keep me up more than the disastrous functionality of our prison system.
It is, after all, no secret that the U.S. houses 25 percent of the world's inmates, while representing a mere 5 percent of the world's population.
In my opinion, this is a direct byproduct of "fear politiks" practiced by both parties — holding power by way of first scaring the broad population and then offering superficial relief by assault on some minority, or "other" population. Too often, that population is "young black men." Full story...
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Beyond my work with jobs, food and vets, few things keep me up more than the disastrous functionality of our prison system.
It is, after all, no secret that the U.S. houses 25 percent of the world's inmates, while representing a mere 5 percent of the world's population.
In my opinion, this is a direct byproduct of "fear politiks" practiced by both parties — holding power by way of first scaring the broad population and then offering superficial relief by assault on some minority, or "other" population. Too often, that population is "young black men." Full story...
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- The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery?
- Jailing immigrants is a booming business in the US...
- The War on Drugs and America's "thriving" prisons...
- There are now more Americans in jail than there were in Stalin's Gulag...
- Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice...
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