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Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past.

Michael K. Williams

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Michael K. Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 22
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Brooklyn
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Michael Kenneth Williams
Michael Williams
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