An excerpt from Salon -
Jay Z’s priceless Father’s Day gift: This is how leaders should address injustices of mass incarceration
The rap mogul bailed other dads out of jail while highlighting the devastating effects of our biased justice system
D. WATKINS
Jay Z was not talking about his watch, cars or money this past week; instead, the rap legend and recent Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee celebrated Father’s Day by bailing other fathers out of jail. And he’s been talking about it, too. In an article for Time, the rap mogul wrote, “We can’t fix our broken criminal justice system until we take on the exploitative bail industry.” While Jay Z has long been aware of how messed up the American criminal justice system is, working on telling Kalief Browder’s story strengthened his commitment to this personal mission.
“When I helped produce this year’s docuseries, ‘Time: The Kalief Browder Story,’ I became obsessed with the injustice of the profitable bail bond industry. Kalief’s family was too poor to post bond when he was accused of stealing a backpack,” Jay-Z wrote. “He was sentenced to a kind of purgatory before he ever went to trial. The three years he spent in solitary confinement on Rikers ultimately created irreversible damage that [led] to his death at 22.”
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/19/jay-zs-priceless-fathers-day-gift-this-is-how-leaders-should-address-injustices-of-mass-incarceration/
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