The entrance to the City of New York Rikers Island Correction Department facility is seen in the Queens borough of New York May 16, 2011.Prisons and jails can be hotspots for infections due to unsanitary conditions and
This is modern slave labor and another example of the failures of the American criminal justice system. Powerful words by Martin Luther King Jr that a lot of people in the U.S claim to live by. However, when it comes to criminal justice reform, those words seem to ring hollow. I spent the better part of my career in British and US politics working for former Prime Ministers David Cameron and Tony Blair, and current UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. I also had the privilege of working on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. But before all of that, I was incarcerated.