Since I Been Down Teaser 2 - Mass Incarceration
Channel: Since I Been Down
Date: 2020-02-14

Attorney Bryan Hershman and Social Activist Mary Flowers break down the statistics of Mass Incarceration and the fear-based policy that we implemented in the 1990s. Pierce County spends 60-70 percent out of every tax dollar on Law & Order.

Robinson, S. (November 19, 2017). 
Here’s how Pierce County plans to spend $324.9 million of your money in 2018. The News Tribune. Retrieved from https://www.thenewstribune.com/article185351403.html

“It’s been a two-month slog through reams of spreadsheets, but Pierce County Council members are poised to adopt a $324.9 million budget for 2018, with what appears to be minimal drama.”

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Short Synopsis 
In 1993, Washington State voters passed the three-strikes law and sent children to prison for life without parole.  We feared these children as irredeemable superpredators. Our fear was wrong, but in 2020, sixteen states continue to keep children in prison for life. SINCE I BEEN DOWN shows the power of these children, now adults nearly forty years later, creating a true path to justice and healing from inside their prison walls. 

“We dare say that a lot of the answers society is searching for (today) will be found in prison” -- Touré Zimbabwe.