Our criminal justice system is so savagely broken.
There's no difference in America between blacks, whites and Latinos for using drugs or dealing drugs.
But if you're African American, you're almost four times
 more likely to be arrested and incarcerated, destroying your lives.
And so much of this comes down to privilege.
We have a criminal justice system that Bryan Stevenson says treats 
you better if you're rich and guilty than if you were born innocent.
And so I have challenged this whole field, we can specifically in demonstratively 
now show that there are 17,000 people unjustly incarcerated in America.
And all of us should come forward and say, when we are president united 
states, when I am President, I states we will release them and let me be specific.
I joined together and lead in the United States Senate, the only major
 bipartisan bill passed on to this president for criminal justice reform
that has already led to thousands of people coming out of jail. If 87 members
of the United States Senate says that these sentences are way too long,
and we changed it but we didn't make it retroactive, we could 
literally point to the people that are in jail unjustly right now.
everyone on this stage should say that we are going to give clemency to these 17,000 people.
And I challenge you don't just say big statements, back it up with details of the people in prison right now,
looking for one of the most sacrosanct ideals of this nation, which is liberty and freedom.
We need to reform this system and we must do it now. Every day. We wait is too long.
