John Oliver nails our incarceration problem

• July 26, 2014
• civil liberties  
• criminal justice  
• racism  

This segment by John Oliver on his new show “Last Week with John Oliver” pretty well sums up the problems with the US criminal justice system:

[https://www.youtube.com/embed/_Pz3syET3DY?feature=oembed]

Then read “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” and “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap“. Then consider yourself lucky if you’re a relatively well off white person in the United States. And if you are a member of that group hang your head in shame if you aren’t doing anything to correct this huge injustice.