President Obama Visits El Reno Correctional to Address Justice Reform

We send far too many people to prison. This is costing The Other 98% dearly, as lives are shattered and Americans, naive to our prison epidemic, fund the lavish lifestyles of those in the prison industrial complex.

https://nationalcdp.org/americas-prison-epidemic/

“When they describe their youth and their childhood, these are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made. The difference is they did not have the kinds of support structures, the second chances, the resources that would allow them to survive those mistakes.”

"Three whole-grown men in a 9-by-10 cell … overcrowding like that is something that has to be addressed.”

FULL video of President ‪#‎Obama‬ speech from Federal Correctional Institution - El Reno, OK, on Thursday, July 16, 2015.

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