and a national leader in prison reform and voting rights efforts for formerly incarcerated citizens. After a wrongful conviction resulted in him spending 27 years, 10 months, and 18 days in prison, Henderson was freed in 2003 and has spent the last 16 years working to bring criminal justice reform to the center stage of American politics.
MTV News: How did this town hall come about? It’s such a powerful visual symbol: Politicians answering to an audience of formerly incarcerated people.A lot of the candidates were trying to reach out to us, sending us their criminal justice platform, asking us to vet it. So we said,"Let's pull this thing together," because everybody's talking about criminal justice reform, but they’re not talking to the people who've been impacted by criminal justice reform.
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