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James Forman, Jr.

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Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison. - James Forman, Jr.
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Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death. - James Forman, Jr.
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In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People convicted of crimes often become social outcasts for life, finding it difficult or impossible to rent an apartment, get a job, adopt children, access public benefits, serve on juries, or vote. - James Forman, Jr.
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Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence. - James Forman, Jr.
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Prosecutors committed to reform need talented staff members who share that commitment, and our best legal talent should flock to their offices. - James Forman, Jr.
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Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally. - James Forman, Jr.
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While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally. - James Forman, Jr.
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The only news most people ever hear about the inner city comes from grim headlines; the only residents they can name are characters on 'The Wire.' Of course, ignorance of a community doesn't stop outsiders from having opinions about it or passing laws that govern it. - James Forman, Jr.
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African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals. Far from ignoring the issue of crime by blacks against other blacks, African-American officials and their constituents have been consumed by it. - James Forman, Jr.
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I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people. - James Forman, Jr.
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Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work. - James Forman, Jr.
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We must continue to recruit progressive prosecutors to run in local elections, support those who do, and hold them accountable if they win. - James Forman, Jr.
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A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act. - James Forman, Jr.
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What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others? - James Forman, Jr.
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One consequence of racism and segregation is that many American whites know little or nothing about the daily lives of African Americans. Black America's least-understood communities are those poor, hyper-segregated places we once called ghettos. These neighborhoods are not far away, but they might as well be on the moon. - James Forman, Jr.
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