Our criminal justice system has been influenced by the for-profit industry.
Our system has declared war on whole communities instead of addressing their needs.
We can't allow politicians to conflate mental health with the need for gun safety laws.
We need to ensure that public policy values families and aims to keep them together.
We need both mental health services and smart gun safety laws.
We need a federal background check law that is strong and comprehensive.
We need to stop the Trump administration from separating children at the border.
I have personally hugged more homicide victims' mothers than I care to tell you.
This is about the devaluation of human life that happens every day in America, in particular the devaluation of Black me...
People are sitting in jail simply because they can't afford bail.
We need to shut down for-profit prisons in America.