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To date over five million people are under supervision by the criminal legal system, and nearly two million people, disproportionately Black, are currently incarcerated in our nation’s jails and prisons. This represents a 500 percent increase since 1973.
How did we get here? Many of the conditions that drove this exponential rise in incarceration persists, including the failed War on Drugs, racially biased policing, disproportionate pretrial practices and sentencing outcomes and the expanded use of lengthy sentences.
Speakers
- Khalil Cumberbatch, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Council on Criminal Justice
- Premal Dharia, Executive Director, Institute to End Mass Incarceration
- Cynthia Roseberry, Acting Director, ACLU Justice Division, American Civil Liberties Union
- Moderated by: Nicole Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy, The Sentencing Project
