article_snippet: The ever-expanding incarceration industry has begun to violate some of the deepest and most sacred principles of BOTH major political parties.
article_snippet: We are incensed by a system that locks up the poor and racial minorities in numbers that are massive -- and massively disproportionate.
article_snippet: We oppose a system that forever tars people as "felons,"  deemed permanently unfit for employment or the right to vote, possibly because of one mistake, early in life.
article_snippet: When any system violates the principles of both "liberty" AND "justice," Americans of all stripes should stand together to change it.
article_snippet: Mark speaks eloquently about the way the criminal justice system violates the Bill of Rights and criminalizes behaviors that should not result in prison terms.
article_snippet: Our values may not always be identical, but Our values can find common expression in fixing this broken prison system.
article_snippet: Over the last 30 years, both parties helped lead us down the path to mass incarceration.
highlights_snippet: America locks up far too many of America citizens, and there's a bipartisan effort to change that .
  