Although the United States makes up just five percent of the global population, America holds 25 percent of the world's prison population.
Five decades ago, lawmakers that have led to today.
One of the largest factors in mass incarceration is the school-to-prison pipeline where marginalized students are pushed out of school and into prison. In the pipeline, as well as mass incarceration as a whole, African Americans are disproportionately affected.
Host Frank Stasio talks with , Orange County public defender; , professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Michigan; , professor of law at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law; , executive director of Community Success Initiative; and , district attorney of Milwaukee.
Williams, Thompson and Birckhead will speak at a titled 鈥淯nderstanding and Dismantling Mass Incarceration: What Solutions Exist for North Carolina?鈥� on Thursday in Cary at the North Carolina Bar Association.
