*Editor’s note: At 00:56, host Mansa Musa misspeaks when quoting a report and says that 55 million people are in the system of mass incarceration; the correct number is 5.5 million.

Over 1.9 million people are incarcerated in the US today, and even greater 5.5 million people are subjected to the wide-ranging system of mass punishment from parole, probation, and beyond. One organization, JustLeadershipUSA, seeks to tackle the prison system by building leaders among formerly incarcerated people, and fighting for change from the local level up. JustLeadershipUSA President and CEO DeAnna Hoskins joins Rattling the Bars to explain the work of her organization and how it seeks to bring about to change.

DeAnna Hoskins has been at the helm of JLUSA as the President and CEO of JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA) since 2018. A nationally recognized leader and dynamic public speaker, Ms. Hoskins has been committed to the movement for racial and social justice, working alongside those most impacted by marginalization for over two decades.

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37 thoughts on “These former prisoners are fighting mass incarceration | Rattling the Bars”
  1. My son is a vulnerable disabled adult he has been in the system since 2014 he has been in jail for about a yr on hearsay they made him plea to something he didn't do and they kept his hearing aids from him. It's a long story I've called everyone the ADA said my son is being discriminated 😢

  2. End the Drug War. That violates all Americans constitutional rights and protections. By Construing to Disparage. To control our souls , feelings. This couldn’t happen if our constitutional rights were protected. To feel, to feel better, happy or relax or be different. Socializing with the same drug culture. Being mostly law abiding people, except for the laws to control our souls.

  3. the police lie the lawyers are for the state revenue and the judges are licensed by the state go to jail even if you're innocent pleed out even though you're innocent

  4. Incarceration is no more than modern day slavery. They don’t want them out they won’t know what to do with them, but to kill them maybe who knows

  5. If African Americans attempted to galvanize themselves culturally within the Untied States and stop supporting the welfare-industrial complex built by the state, they will destroy the funding and foundation of the Justice Department, Drug Enforcement and Public Authority departments almost entirely the entire domestic state department complex along with most of law enforcement , education and housing programs.

    That is something that simply they would never allow, this country is becoming MORE Authoritarian not less. slavery had to become segregation, then it turned into redlining and regional containment, now its become the prison system complex for the most part.

    But most importantly, the fabricated racial narrative is needed to keep the white majority working class and the black working class separated and at odds with each other on racial grounds with consistent propaganda. If you didn't do that; the animosity would shift to the actual power class in the US and there would be real class warfare movement being built.

    Every black leader and some white, were assassinated for this, and it will always be the domestic policy of the elites in the State Corporation of the US.

  6. You really wanna drive on a bridge built by 35% local po folk instead of the best workers they can afford?
    What could possibly go wrong woth that? 😂

  7. It's set up for failure , the only way you succeed is by YOU ,
    They'll use one success story to push the agenda , and use a failure situation to create more b*****

  8. No prison bars, locks nor guards can keep a strong mind. Therefore why didn’t folks realize that prisons have no bars, no locks and no guards?

  9. If anyone thinks any of this is going change they are kidding themselves. It’s government sanctioned human trafficking and a cash cow an employs too many people

  10. The criminal justice system intentionally is invested in enslavement which is legal for the state in all "state" forms…the 13th amendment specifically maintains legal enslavement of those the state incarcerate's…city jails, county jails, state, federal and subcontractors such as the marketshared corporate entity GEO group, all use legal enslavement of those they hold…same goes to those taking custody of minors as guardians…and then pimp them out to industry as workers…and flesh.

  11. The whole judicial system needs to be destroyed and a correct system of the creators Laws needs to be brought back into where it belongs. Aka laws of nature's and nature's creator.

  12. The war on cannabis and then cocaine after Lin Bias was intentionally directed at the American of African descent citizens, that morphed into civil forfeiture boom and everyone became fair game for the authorities. Cannabis doesn't meet the Daubert Standard for a drug. Why are we working with law representative s that won't put no Mens Rea in court for us? It's a corrupt system top to bottom. Only every citizen saying No Mens Rea for any consenting adult behavior. Quit getting in the ring with superman. Start teaching civil rights on the corners in the neighborhoods. Many in jail just need to learn to all stand up and invoke rights. It may only be possible in groups at first, but filming them does hold them accountable.

  13. This here maybe

    Maybe don't value the totally bogus artificial "royal" construct of "property" over human life.

    ALL Money is a lie.

    Try not to slave.

    Reverse: eb tod VYA

  14. Good show. excellent information presented in the right perspective. 55 million people controlled by prisons is crazy. was the Gulag in the former Soviet Union ever this vast? That was considered the epitome of tyranny and oppression but what in the name of the people and all heaven is this? Factor in the families, friends and communities of these 55 millio in social, political and harm to the public health by this data and we're looking at massive chaos and trauma. Factor that in and clearly this isnot a democracy and not even in the vicinity of an ideal society as the US is presented globally. "Policy and legislation will never free Black people." I so appreciate her approach to understanding before dismantling an oppressive system.

  15. We require a modern approach to our prison system from an Elite Private Investment System ($50k/per head/per year of tax payer dollars) to A REAL REHABILITATION and Wellness Institution. We are breeding career criminals due to POVERTY created by those WHO FINANCIALLY BENEFIT FROM SLAVING = Ruining U.S. 🇺🇸 And Q: Why do all these Americans want to be high on drugs? Is it for a good time? Or DUE TO NON STOP 🔥RAPE🔥 … #WeKnow 💯%

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