50 Years and a Wake Up: Kemba Smith

For the last fifty years, the United States has advanced punitive policies that have led to a staggering increase in the prison population. The prison population has grown 500% since 1973, and today, almost 2 million people - disproportionately Black Americans - are incarcerated in our nation’s prisons and jails. Alarmingly, there continues to be widespread misinformation about our criminal legal system and political posturing around failed “tough on crime” policy proposals that do nothing to actually make our communities safer.
In this video, Kemba Smith shares how her personal experiences shaped her work in advocacy and discusses the impact of mass incarceration.

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Absolutely. The time is now!