Please let us all join together and send a message that we will not continue to fund a broken system. We want incarceration to work as intended by the constitution. To promote public safety and restore useful citizenship

The campaign to “Ban the Box,” part of the program to reduce the barriers to employment for those with criminal records, is continuing with efforts to communicate and educate legislators and others in positions to make the necessary changes

In her recent op-ed article in the New York Times, “In Prison Reform, Money Trumps Civil Rights,” Michelle Alexander, professor at Law at Ohio State University, addresses the racial issue, and calls for a renewal of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s.

To a large extent, her points coincide with the purposes of The Changing Minds Campaign:

1. To educate ourselves about the situation, which has only gotten worse over the last 25 years.
2. To understand the nature of the barriers we face (“the usual suspects”), some of whom Alexander enumerates.
3. To change our own minds — that is, to believe that we can help effect change.
4. To persuade others to change their minds and join the campaign.

The article is worth reading, as it states succinctly the truth from a racial perspective, which is also the essence of Ms. Alexander’s book, “The New Jim Crow.”