As we prepare to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let us honor him by dedicating ourselves to eliminating the serious injustice of mass incarceration in America.

The statistics are grim. The United States has a prison population of 2.2 million, more than any other country. Our rate of incarceration is the highest in the world and falls with severe disproportionality on African Americans.

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