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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.
And we appear unfazed by building more jails to incarcerate people whose only crime is using drugs.
I spend most of my time in jails, in prisons, on death row.
In 1972, there were 300,000 people in jails and prisons.
Seventy-five percent of people in American local jails are there because they cannot pay bail.
American prisons and jails are filled with people who suffer from severe mental illness, and many of them are there because they never received adequate treatment.
And even some of them were put into black jails.
I wanted to understand who we were arresting, who we were charging, and who we were putting in our nation's jails and prisons.
Right now, today, we have 2.3 million people in our jails and prisons.
And we face unbelievable public safety challenges because we have a situation in which two thirds of the people in our jails are there waiting for trial.
And I also want to say one other thing: We are not going to solve this problem by building more jails or by even building more shelters.
We need to change the culture in our jails and prisons, especially for young inmates.
Jails are actually supposed to rehabilitate a person, not cause him or her to become more angry, frustrated, and feel more hopeless.
A second big thing to help our teens in jails is better programming.
Same with probation officers, same with judges, same with folks who were up that law enforcement chain, because they realized, like we did, that we'll never arrest ourselves out of this situation, that there will not be enough prosecutions made, and you cannot fill these jails up enough in order to alleviate the problem.
I spent time in jails and brothels, interviewed hundreds of survivors and law enforcement, NGO workers.
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.
There are thousands of Christophers out there, some locked in our jails and prisons.
And we've seen that redemption and transformation can happen in our prisons, our jails and our immigration detention centers, giving hope to those who want to create a better life after serving their time.
They even sent liberal imams into the jails to persuade the jihadists that terror is un-Islamic.
I heard many stories like this and they shouldn't have surprised me, because suicide is the single leading cause of death in our local jails.
This is related to the lack of mental health care in our jails.
And this isn't anomalous, either: thirty percent of women in our local jails have serious mental health needs just like hers, but only one in six receives any mental health care while in jail.
We're told that our jails are places for criminals, but statistically that's not the case: three out of every five people in jail right now are there pretrial.
But in actuality, I find talking about jailing much less depressing than the alternative, because I think if we don't talk about these issues and collectively change how we think about jailing, at the end of all of our lives, we'll still have jails full of poor people who don't belong there.
I saw with my own eyes children not [old] enough for kindergarten in unmarked buses, being shipped off to jails hundreds of miles away.
At the time he was looking after the rights of political prisoners in Italian jails.
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