Over the last 40, 50 years and the years since Dr. King died, the land of the free has become the mass incarceration capital of the world. We're 4% of the world's population. We warehouse 25% of the world's prisoners. This has played itself out over decades in communities like in Baltimore and Philadelphia and in Atlanta and south central la. And we're under Republican and Democratic administrations. (33:17–33:23)
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Warnock claims the U.S. holds 25% of the world's prisoners despite being 4% of the global population.
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