Sign if you agree: Mass incarceration is modern-day slavery

Over 2 million Americans are currently in prison or jail. Incarceration rates in the U.S. have exploded since 1970 although crime rates have remained fairly stagnant. Much of the disparity can be explained by drug-related arrests after the Nixon administration declared a national War on Drugs, an admitted ruse to target and criminalize black people and anti-war activists.

Mass incarceration does not reduce crime or result in safer communities. Its primary outcome has been to hold people--disproportionately black people--against their will in prisons, where they are often forced to labor for private corporations.

There is a word for holding people captive and forcing them to work for other people's gain -- "slavery."

Sign if you agree that mass incarceration is a modern form of slavery and must be abolished immediately.

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