#82 - James Forman Jr on reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system

<p>No democracy has ever incarcerated as many people as the United States. To get its incarceration rate down to the global average, the US would have to release 3 in 4 people in its prisons today. </p><p> The effects on Black Americans have been especially severe — Black people make up 12% of the US population but 33% of its prison population. In the early 2000's when incarceration reached its peak, the US government estimated that 32% of Black boys would go to prison at some point in their lives, 5.5 times the figure for whites. </p><p> Contrary to popular understanding, nonviolent drug offenders make...