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"Certainly, when we hear these types of numbers it alarms most of the general public," said Civil Rights Activist Keyon Payton. "But the reality is, as African-Americans, we live this experience every day."
"It made me feel disgusted - I couldn't believe it," said Carolyn Lett, the director of diversity at Roeper. "When I first saw it, I'm trying to make sense of it myself."
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick spoke on Redemption Sunday about the life-saving value of hope while touting a criminal justice ballot initiative for Michigan prisons.
Release comes less than a day after departing President Donald Trump's commutation of his 28-year sentence
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Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has served more than seven years of a 28-year prison sentence for corruption crimes, was released from federal prison Wednesday after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence, a Bureau of Prisons spokesman told The Associated Press.