 From a racial equity perspective prison has become a microcosm of the entire United States, but it's disproportionately black and brown. African-American male has a greater possibility of going to prison than they do going to college in this country. The same level of activity often takes place in all communities. It's just a matter of where you put law enforcement dollars, and I think that a lot of black and brown communities have a disproportionate number of law enforcement there. What's needed in those same communities are just opportunities, and if individuals have opportunities, I think that they would choose opportunity over a life of crime. Prison life is no way of living. I've been in prison, and what I know is that it is easier to work to take care of yourself, and most people who I met in prison weren't thinking of their next trip back to prison. They were thinking of how could they come home and be good citizens, walk their kids to school, take care of their families, and they had, to me, it was one of the greatest places where people were dreaming big dreams. I think folks are going back to prison because they're just unable to connect to their dreams and unable to connect to resources. For people who are coming home from prison, they serve often what I call the invisible life sentence, and that's because of the criminal background check. The criminal background check is used on many applications for a variety of reasons to access housing opportunity, job opportunities, financial access, and higher education, and often when a person checks that box, opportunity ends. The only thing it says is, yes, this person has committed a crime, but it doesn't give context, and without the context, employers and even well-intended individuals just don't know what to do with that information. And so the status quo is the answer is no. It's easier to say no than to sit around and figure this out. So we're talking about a large percentage of our population that has no rest or conviction record, and as a result of that, they're experiencing some form of what workforce discrimination or access to capital, higher education, and just in general, they're locked out of opportunities. It's expensive to send people to prison. It's expensive to keep people locked out of opportunity and depending on safety net programs. And so we all have to care because it's a third of our fellow citizens that are facing this problem and it's become all of our problem.