There are real things to march about right now: the gutted Voting Rights Act, mass incarceration, sentencing disparities connected to prolific stand your ground laws, workers without jobs, plus the recent attacks on food stamps by some legislators, even in light of growing disparity in American hunger rates.
After he completed a six-month shock-incarceration sentence for his drug conviction, immigration authorities could have moved to deport Mr. Antoine, but state parole officials and his family said they did not.
That's it, the one and only record on paper of protracted U.S. incarceration: three sentences for four years of a young Afghan's life, written in language Orwell would have recognized.
America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline; is a toxic cocktail of poverty, illiteracy, racial disparities, violence and massive incarceration which sentences millions of children of color to social and economic death.
Breyer wrote a minority judgment in which he said: "I have little doubt about the cruelty of so long a period of incarceration under sentence of death".
"I have little doubt about the cruelty of so long a period of incarceration under sentence of death," Breyer wrote.
Each can be confirmed through a number of outcomes and measurements--wage gaps, employment gaps, cultural influence, political power, economic power, incarceration rates, sentencing disparities... and on and on.
Proposition 47 is an initiative that shows that stopping the cycle of mass incarceration and harsh sentences is not only achievable, it is eminently sensible.
As he approaches the end of his presidency, he has pledged to do more to address problems like mass incarceration, mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent offenders and police brutality.
Law and order may have won the White House on Tuesday, but in a series of closely watched district attorney races around the country, voters ushered in candidates who argued for less incarceration and punitive sentences.
