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Opinion | To make the fundamental changes our criminal justice system desperately needs, we have to first overhaul how we talk about it. By ash_prashar

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We should allow space for a different view on what or who someone might have actually been and do meaningful work to create empathy for communities with different needs because they're often left out of traditional ladders of success. The boys at the prison were ritually humiliated and beaten up. The older kids set the younger kids on one another, and the correctional officers would tear into us with racist abuse, trying to goad a reaction. I was even put in solitary confinement for a short stint for my own protection. The same solitary confinement referred to as the 'hot box', the same solitary confinement where more young people lose themselves or commit suicide.

But we shouldn't be dependent on luck and in fact, luck didn't get me to where I am today. It was people. People who chose to see me not just an ex-con and who saw that we were children, not gang members.

This work can take many forms, from shutting down prisons, eliminating cash bonds, reducing police brutality, or changing draconian measures such as the three-strike rule.

 

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Ash_Prashar Most......Prisoners.....are.....STUPID all the way to the BONES....this won't work😮😴😢😡😬😠

Ash_Prashar Y si se lo traducen al falto de huevos de DrGiammattei? LuisvonAhn le podría hacer un descuento para que aprenda inglés y talvez así hace algo al respecto... JimmiteiFaltoDeHuevos

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