 Unequal Justice in America (Image by DonkeyHotey) Details DMCA | The American Civil Liberties Union has announced a $50 million grant from the Open Society Foundations in support of its campaign to end mass incarceration in the United States.
The nationwide campaign seeks to reform criminal justice policies that have increased incarceration rates dramatically during an era of declining crime rates and widening racial disparities. The nation's adult jail and prison population currently numbers more than 2.2 million people, with one in a hundred adults behind bars -- the highest rate in the world. The ACLU aims to cut that number in half by 2020 with the most ambitious effort to end mass incarceration in U.S. history. |
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