|Current: @tony4wi | Formerly: @WIwfp, Team @IAforWarren, @iowademocrats , @FredHubbell , and @vademocrats| Got a jug on me at all times| he/him/his
Jun 21, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
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.