1/ As a black man in the US, I’ve seen how the criminal justice system is stacked against me and my brothers and sisters in the community. I grew up during mass incarceration in the 1990s and 2000s and have seen how it impacted a generation. 2/ An African American is five times more likely to be incarcerated than a white person, and from 2000 to 2016, the private prison population grew five times as quickly as the overall prison population.