“Justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

60 years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” racial inequities in the criminal legal system continue to disproportionately impact Black people.

From overpolicing Black communities to “tough-on-crime” policies like cash bail, the roots of today’s system of #MassIncarceration can be traced back to our nation’s dark history of racial subjugation and dehumanization. #MLKDay

This #MLK Day, we must acknowledge that the relationship between #massincarceration and racial injustice can’t be untied without addressing it directly.

Our actions must reflect the “fierce urgency of now.”