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King's legacy demands reforms in criminal justice system

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

King's legacy demands reforms in criminal justice system BY JEFF GERRITT ? DETROIT FREE PRESS EDITORIAL WRITER ? January 20, 2009 For the last three years, I've celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Ryan Correctional Facility, a guest of prison members of the NAACP. It seems right to commemorate the holiday with some of the 2.3 million Americans locked up. If King were alive, he would understand, as Malcolm X certainly would, that mass incarceration has become an economic, social and human rights problem the nation can ignore no longer. This year, Monday's event at the east-side Detroit prison took on deeper meaning. Even inside the walls, President-elect Barack Obama has sparked hope and joy. "People around the world are rejoicing," inmate Kenneth Foster-Bey, 55 and serving a life sentence, told nearly 100 other prisoners during a program of singing and speeches...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 22, 2009 (boomark / email).