From Troy Davis to Occupy Wall Street: How the Prison System Destroys the "American Dream"
Submitted on October 4, 2011
By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg - AlterNet
The people of Occupy Wall Street are protesting...growing inequality, the staggering rise of the rich and the economic fall of just about everyone else, the divestment in education and a social safety net. Nowhere is this gap and these austerity measures more acutely felt than by those in our prisons...than by the families of those incarcerated, and by the formerly incarcerated who are engaged in a Sisyphean struggle to create a life on the outside.
