Today we look at the rotten underbelly of our 'corrections' system, who it victimizes and who it profits.
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Kids for Cash - Official Trailer - kidsforcashthemovie - Air Date: 03-10-14
Ch. 3: Act 2: Documentary Exposes Corrupt "Kids For Cash" Judge In Pennsylvania - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 03-03-14
Ch. 4: Song 2: We're All in the Same Gang (feat. West Coast Rap All Stars) - Volume Three
Ch. 5: Act 3: We're Being Robbed But The People Doing It Will Never Go To Prison - @bravenewfilms - Air Date: 11-05-13
Ch. 6: Song 3: Resurrection (Space Club Mix) - Phonosynthesis (Includes Continuous Mix By DJ Irene)
Ch. 7: Act 4: Michelle Alexander: Locked Out of America - @billmoyersHQ - Air Date 12-20-13
Ch. 8: Song 4: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics: Ultimate Collection (Remastered)
Ch. 9: Act 5: Annual NYC Inmate Cost Higher Than 4 Years at Harvard - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 10-05-13
Ch. 10: Song 5: Circles - El Oso
Ch. 11: Act 6: How Yoga Can Help In California's Overcrowded Prisons - TIME - Air Date: 12-19-13
Ch. 12: Song 6: Amends - Bound for Glory
Ch. 13: Act 7: Unfree in America - Mumia Abu-Jamal - Air Date: 2-4-14
Ch. 14: Song 7: We Never Change - Parachutes
Ch. 15: Act 8: All out for CA prisoner hunger strike 2013 - CA Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity - Air Date: 07-08-13
Ch. 16: Song 8: My Favorite Mutiny - Pick a Bigger Weapon
Ch. 17: Act 9: Solitary Confinement - Marc Kilstein for @citizenradio - Air Date: 09-18-13
Ch. 18: Song 9: Creature Fear - For Emma, Forever Ago
Ch. 19: Act 10: Campaign to End Solitary Confinement via @Illinois_CAT - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 20: Song 10: Activism - The Poet
Ch. 21: Act 11: Man Facing Execution Pens Chilling Letter Full Of Truths You Can't Deny - The Young Turks - Air Date: 03-08-14
Voicemails
Ch. 22: Responding on self-identity - Katie from Philadelphia
Ch. 23: The importance of accuracy in labels - Grace from North Carolina
Ch. 24: The history of and thoughts on the word 'queer' - David in Los Angeles
Ch. 25: Men, stop calling yourselves women - Morgan from Chicago
Ch. 26: Re: Respectability Politics: Exactly, amen - Elka from Fort Wayne, IN
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 27: Final comments on recent bonus content and membership
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
ACTIVISM:
End Solitary Confinement In Illinois petition from CREDO and hard copy petition from Illinois CAT.
Printable info flier to circulate.
Sources/further reading:
"I-CAT is Launching a Campaign to End Solitary Confinement in Illinois Prisons”
"Funding Approved for Activation of ADX/USP Thomson, New Federal Supermax Prison” via Truthout
“Essential Prison Industrial Complex Reading List” from Prison Culture a blog everyone should read and a vital follow on Twitter.
"Chicago City Council Resolution to Make the City 'Torture Free’” via Illinois CAT
"Incarcerated Workers Launch Nonviolent Work Strike Against "New Jim Crow" Across Alabama Prisons” from Truthout
"Tennessee bill to bring back electric chair headed to governor”
"A Prisoner Says Farewell to Solitary Confinement – Writing by Lee Savage” via Prison Culture
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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