Ted Talks
"We need to talk about an injustice" Bryan Stevenson, 2012
"We need to talk about an injustice" Bryan Stevenson, 2012
- Power of identity
- beings with a personal story
- 2.3 million people in jail in 2012
- 7 million people on parole in 2012
- system of justice that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than poor and innocent
- In Alabama 34% of black male population has lost right to vote
- U.S is only country in world who will sentence a minor to life in prison without parole
- 1 out of 9 people on death row innocent- a lot of error in system that kills
- Do we deserve to kill?
- No death penalty in Germany
- "Opposite of poverty is justice"
- Judge a society by how they treat the poor and incarcerated, teaches about who you really are
"Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform" Marlon Peterson, 2017
- believes we learn more from questions than answers
- was arrested for role in violent robbery in lower manhattan, sentenced to 10 years in prison
- "Criminal justice reform is human justice"
- Think about if you choose not to see or hear people because you have something against them...
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