Nearly half of all American adults have had an immediate family member incarcerated. On any given day, nearly 2 million people, disproportionately Black and brown people, are detained in U.S. jails and prisons. If these individuals all lived in the same geographic area, they would form one of America’s top five largest cities. Yet too often their voices are missing from coverage of public safety and the criminal justice media landscape.
It’s imperative that local and national outlets better center the needs and views of these constituents, and one of the best ways to do so is working with freelance incarcerated writers.
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