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The US Prison System | Jesse Jackson | Oxford Union

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Channel: OxfordUnion · 2014 · News & Politics

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Jesse Jackson talks about the US prison system and the death penalty.
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Jesse Jackson highlights that the US prison system is predominantly occupied by african americans. 13 million arrests are made a year in America and the only drug that carries a prison sentece is crack. A $15 dollar bag of crack comes with a mandatory sentence of 3 years. 
Filmed on Tuesday 3rd December 2013

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ABOUT JESSE JACKSON:
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He is the founder of the organizations that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Jackson was also the host of Both Sides with Jesse Jackson on CNN from 1992 to 2000.

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