Criminal Justice Reform is Not A Partisan Issue

It’s a Humanitarian and a Public Health Issue

The London print of the British slave ship Brookes showed the dehumanizing statistical visualization with graphic precision — how the legally permitted 454 men, women, and children might be accommodated by treating humans as more base than commodities.—Sarah Lewis

Take a look at the print Description of a Slave Ship (1789) Cory Booker, Senator Chris Coons, John Cornyn, Senator Tom Cotton, Senator Orrin Hatch, Mike Lee, Senator David Perdue, Tim Scott, Chuck Schumer and Sheldon Whitehouse. This print is said to have led to the abolition of slavery in 18th century London by stirred MPs .

Now imagine where such human built arcs of human suffering and torture exist today?

by Lloyd Degrane from Prison Photography

These warehouses of bodies exist in the proliferating prisons that incarcerate 2,200,000+ people and oversee another 4,700,000+ through parole, the majority of them being non-violent offenders.

Brown v Plata from Prison Obsucra

Mass incarceration is a human rights violation that robs families of loved ones, worsens mental health outcomes and costs us $8,000,000,000 to maintain for a profitable industry that has not provenly reduced crime rates or recidivism.

by Josh Bagley from Prison Obsucra

If people built the over 5,300 prison industrial complexes, then we can dismantle it, as it an abuse of power that has no place in a modern democracy.

See Also:

Medium’s Criminal Justice System Town Hall, ACLU National’s America’s Prison Addiction and Pete Brook’s Prison Photography project.