Tony Lewis Jr. talks about growing up in a world of mass incarceration and why education should not be limited in prisons. His new book is called Slugg: A Boy's Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration.
- Gives background
- Did you environment influence you to get in the crime life
- Father wanted him to stay out of crime
- How do you feel about people glorifying street life
- Being addicted to crime
- 2 Choices in the hood- bad or worse
- Effects of gentrification
- Accountability
- Trump wants to sentence drug dealers to death
- What did you think of Hillary Clinton when she was running
- Black Officials not helping
- Is Hip Hop at fault
- People hurting their own community
- Why don’t more people in DC get into politics
- How do we make correctional facilities educational
Find Tony's book here and sign the petition to stop the Federal Bureau of Prisons from restricting access to books in prisons.