Due to Background: Hidden Life Sentences in Communities of Color

ARC's Seth Wessler sits down with Vincent, a Detroit native who finds himself unemployable because of a prison sentence he served 25 years ago. Vincent is one of millions of qualified, dedicated workers made unfairly jobless and vulnerable to exploitation by an incarceration system with no statute of limitations. The need for incarceration reform is one of many factors that hurts our economy and keeps our communities of color at a perpetual disadvantage.

Photos courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/detroitderek/ under a Creative Commons license. As posted to Racewire.org. http://www.racewire.org

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[darthorpheus]

Thank you!

[Avwrexshop]

Thanks for this relevant and timely vid! @dwfreedom

[destructicon500]

Reform isn't needed - a revolution is.

[Amaliada]

This is a subject that I had never really thought about or understood before. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.