I photographed last Friday’s North Carolina Advocates for Justice event, a day filled with presentations and calls for action from brilliant and engaged attorneys. Among them, Jeff Robinson from the ACLU of NY. I was snapping pics instead of taking notes, so this is paraphrased and filtered through memory’s maze, but he said something that needs to be heard by more people than just those in the room:

–The talent that goes into our prisons, the talent of the next generation, that’s a national security issue. We cannot afford to lock up, to lock out, to lose any of it.–

Yes. Thank you, Jeff, for all that you do.