Prison Apartheid Poem by Saiom Shriver

Prison Apartheid



Prisons in the US have become
systems of South African apartheid,
but now consciousness is growing
... changing is the tide.

Prison Apartheid
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: prison
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
56% of prisoners in the US, the largest
per capita prison population in the world
were sentenced for nonviolent drug use.

Over 2 million are in jail.

The Obama administration released
6000 nonviolent offenders from federal
jails in 2015.
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