This video includes 5 ways you can get involved in the fight to end mass incarceration. Mass incarceration is destroying us all; not just those in the correctional system. We are spending far too much money on the imprisonment of nonviolent individuals. It costs us taxpayers an average of $31,000 per inmate, annually. Its time we do something about this.

The War on Drugs is the cause of mass incarceration. In 2014, 97% of all convicted defendants pled guilty. Most pled guilty to a drug offense.

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