Jails
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We know the criminal justice system needs reform, we know there are 2.3 million people in American
jails
and prisons, making us the most incarcerated nation on the planet.
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I don't design
jails.
By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian
jails
and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.
We all want the wheels of justice to properly turn, but we're coming to understand that the lofty ideals we learned in school look really different in our nation's prisons and
jails
and courtrooms.
Our conversation moved quickly, from a large number of political prisoners in American jails, to Derrius wondering about the legacy of the Black Liberation Movement of the '60s, and how his life might be different if he'd come of age then, instead of 30-odd years later.
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