Perseverance means “remaining steadfast in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.” As a formerly incarcerated person, I have experienced my share of difficulties and delays. I am only one of the over 636,000 Americans released from prison every year, a number that has grown exponentially in the past two decades.
The United States, as the global leader in incarceration, can no longer deny the many injustices that currently plague our justice system...
