Imagine being enslaved for four hundred years, imagine gaining freedom, then imagine that freedom being stripped from you by our legal system.
Ladies and Gentlemen I am here to talk about, inform, and propose what we shall do as a community to eliminate the criminal injustice we witness inside of our prison system everyday.
The day slavery was terminated in 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted and slavery ended, white men yet again found another systematic way to extort free labor out of African American men. The Thirteenth Amendment justified this which states, “Neither nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime.”…