John Legend Spearheading a Campaign To End Mass Incarceration

Grammy- and Oscar-winning musician John Legend has launched a campaign, FREE AMERICA, that will address and, if it accomplishes its mission, end the epidemic of mass incarceration in the US.

“It’s destroying families, it’s destroying communities and we’re the most incarcerated country in the world, and when you look deeper and look at the reasons we got to this place, we as a society made some choices politically and legislatively, culturally to deal with poverty, deal with mental illness in a certain way and that way usually involves using incarceration,” said in an interview on the topic.

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