Bearing Witness: A Nation in Chains

A Report of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference
Findings from Nine Statewide Justice Commission Hearings on Mass Incarceration

In 2012, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc. (SDPC) set out to hear and document representative voices, experiences, and perspectives of those most deeply entangled and impacted by America's criminal justice system.  We sought to provide a process whereby individual stories of those largely unheard before could be captured and woven into a meta-narrative on the impact of the criminal justice system and mass incarceration upon them and the life of their families and communities— formerly incarcerated persons; persons who have been detained and imprisoned unfairly; persons most likely to get swept into the system; and, persons who work and advocate on the ground, and too often in isolation. Bearing Witness: A Nation in Chains is the culminating report of the SDPC Justice Commission Hearings to date.

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