ACLU @ACLU
An estimated 65% are Black. Many were struggling with mental illness, drug dependency or financial desperation when they committed their crimes. None of them will ever come home to their parents and children. This isn't the country we want to be. — PolitiTweet.org
Sentencing Project @SentencingProj
NEW REPORT: The national lifer population of 206,000 now exceeds the size of the entire prison population in 1970.… https://t.co/lX5fzprKsJ