If you forget that these are real human beings whose life has value, regardless of their crime(s), then it becomes easier to make and accept laws that are damaging with long-term and generational consequences.
E. Paris Whitfield
Eric Paris Whitfield is the co-founder of Prisoners’ Brain Trust, an Empowerment Avenue writer, Study & Struggle radical book reviewer, and resident poet for “What’s the Tea.” In 2023 Paris graduated from Bard College with a B.A. in sociology.