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We need to talk about an injustice - Bryan Stevenson

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In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about like this.

In the United States of America in 1972, there were 300,000 people in jails and prisons. How many were there in 2012?

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