US lawyer and campaigner Bryan Stevenson contends that slavery in America did not end in 1865 but evolved into lynching, to segregation and to mass incarceration. The United States incarcerates more of its citizens than any other nation in the world. Black men are more than six times more likely to be incarcerated than white men. Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative works on behalf of 3000 children as young as 13 who have been given life sentences without the possibility of parole, and thousands of adults given death sentences.
Are we in the UK much different? Here, despite being 2.8% of the population, 10% of prisoners are black.
BBC Radio Manchester interview
MJR trustees Beatrice Smith and Paul Keeble were interviewed by Asthma Younus on BBC Radio Manchester on Sunday morning about the forthcoming screening of ‘After the Flood: