"A serious reformation of our carceral policy—one seeking a smaller
prison population, and a prison population that looks more like
America—cannot concern itself merely with sentencing reform, cannot
pretend as though the past 50 years of criminal-justice policy did not
do real damage. And so it is not possible to truly reform our justice
system without reforming the institutional structures, the communities,
and the politics that surround it."Ta-Nehisi Coates
