Facts that reveal a broken system—and what we must do to change it.
Why criminal justice reform is needed? The statistics are staggering.
This is the world I stepped into when I was incarcerated. These are the truths that lit the fire. These are the reasons I speak.
Where We Focus Our Fight
The need for criminal justice reform is staggering. But to create meaningful, lasting change, we must begin by narrowing our focus. These are the issues closest to my heart—where injustice runs deep and silence is no longer an option:
Standing Up for Incarcerated Women: From healthcare to dignity, their voices demand to be heard.
Eliminating the Felony Murder Rule: An outdated law that punishes people for crimes they didn’t commit.
Ending the Death Penalty: A system fraught with racial bias, error, and irrevocable consequences.
Calling Out For-Profit Prisons: Institutions that thrive on incarceration and taxpayer ignorance.
Learn more about the human cost of these failures and what prison reform really means.
It’s time for change…
The US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, keeping nearly 2.3 million locked in federal and state prisons and jails.
Crime rates have little to do with the rise of the prison population in the last four decades in the US.
What happened between 1980 and now for the prison population to rise by 500%? Is it to keep the general public safe?
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, “Even when women have minimal or no involvement in the drug trade, they are increasingly caught in the ever-widening net cast by current drug laws, through provisions of the criminal law such as those involving conspiracy, accomplice liability, and constructive possession that expand criminal liability to reach partners, relatives, and bystanders.”
Dive into these detailed incarceration statistics to get a big picture view of why the land of the free keeps so many people behind bars.
It’s time to take action.
Be the change!
Learn more about the human cost of these failures and what prison reform really means.
