Black Progressive Prison Rights Underground Railroad Tha Mitten

This podcast We will be talking to Shauntae Patton of Love Inc. He will be explaining for US programs and services for OUR Brother and Sisters when they get out of prison in the State of Michigan. 

The United States now accounts for less than 5 percent of the world’s inhabitants—and about 25 percent of its incarcerated inhabitants. In 2000, one in 10 black males between the ages of 20 and 40 was incarcerated—10 times the rate of their white peers. In 2010, a third of all black male high-school dropouts between the ages of 20 and 39 were imprisoned, compared with only 13 percent of their white peers.

Michigan leads the country in the average length of a prison stay—4.3 years—yet most prisoners do eventually say goodbye. The bliss of freedom, the joy of family reunion, can quickly be tempered by the challenge of staying free. The transition can be jarring.

This program is sponser by The Black Progressive Prison Rights Movement.. This is the Michigan Radio station for it.