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May 18, 2015

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Reforming The Prison System: Shaka Senghor & #Cut50

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

– Nelson Mandela –

Reforming The Prison System: Shaka Senghor & #Cut50

Convicted of the murder of a fellow drug dealer, Shaka Senghor spent seven of his 19 years in prison in solitary confinement — a bare six by eight-foot cell. Today he leads a new initiative to transform the justice system by cutting the U.S. prison population in half by 2025. His message of personal and political transformation provides us with an opportunity to question the enormous costs of caging the human spirit. { read more }

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Joining Shaka’s initiative helps us all. When you think how you would feel locked into a cage like a bird, you might consider supporting his work in some way.

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