Sen. Cory Booker writes for The Post: 'You can tell a lot about a country by who it incarcerates. Some countries imprison journalists. Others imprison political opponents. We imprison the poor, the addicted, the mentally ill.'
Barbed wire at Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown, Md. By Cory Booker March 10 at 8:00 AM Cory Booker, a Democrat, represents New Jersey in the U.S. Senate.
Almost 90 percent of the people sentenced under this unfair disparity, such as Douglas, were black. None were given the leniency available to many wealthy, white people who break the law — for example, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for his eight white-collar criminal convictions.
Douglas’s story is a testament to both the deep unfairness that exists within our broken criminal justice system and the transformative impact legislation can have on people’s lives. Earlier this year, Douglas was my guest at the State of the Union address, and I had the honor of hearing him tell his story in person. While his recounting of the moment he learned about his freedom was incredibly moving, what he told me next was the true revelation.
And neither will I. There are still far too many Americans unjustly stuck behind bars, languishing in warehouses of human potential that are tearing families apart, destroying communities, wasting taxpayer dollars and violating our ideals as a nation.
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