We need to talk about an injustice

In 1972, there were 300,000 people in jails and prisons. Today, there are 2.3 million. [...] One out of three black men between the ages of 18 and 30 is in jail, in prison, on probation or parole. In urban communities across this country — Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington — 50 to 60 percent of all young men of color are in jail or prison or on probation or parole.

Right now in Alabama 34 percent of the black male population has permanently lost the right to vote.

The United States is the only country in the world where we sentence 13-year-old children to die in prison.

For every nine people who have been executed, we've actually identified one innocent person who's been exonerated and released from death row. A kind of astonishing error rate — one out of nine people innocent. I mean, it's fascinating. In aviation, we would never let people fly on airplanes if for every nine planes that took off one would crash.