Air Date: 7-28-2017
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: @MayaSchenwar: Why Prison Doesn't Work - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date 06-08-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: Life In Prison - Mitchell
Ch. 4: Act 2: The high cost, terrible results and an alternate solution to prison - Economic Update w: @profwolff - Air Date 7-10-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: A Lot of Work to Do - Friendly People
Ch. 6: Act 3: What We Can Learn from German Prisons... - Thom Hartmann - Air Date 08-18-15
Ch. 7: Song 3: Adventure, Darling - Gillicuddy
Ch. 8: Act 4: PRISON Norway vs. United States - @theyoungturks - Air Date 08-31-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Dawn Departure, Jefferson County - Black Prairie
Ch. 10: Act 5: @DDayen: The True Cost of the Private Prison Industry - @RingOfFireRadio - Air Date 08-23-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Profit - The Mammals
Ch. 13: Song 6: Backwards Blues - Adia Victoria
Ch. 14: Act 7: Prisons Phasing Out Visitation For Price-Gouging Video Calls - @theyoungturks - Air Date 05-07-16
Ch. 15: Song 7: Fight the Power - Public Enemy
Ch. 16: Act 8: Tell Senators to Support the Video Visitation and Inmate Calling in Prisons Act of 2017 via @PrisonPolicy - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 17: Song 8: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 18: Act 9: The Solution Isn't Kindler, Gentler Prison - The F Word w/ @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date: 12-15-15
Voicemails
Ch. 19: Don't argue when someone agrees with you - Alan from Connecticut
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 20: Final comments on the conservative view on gender fluidity and the existence of transgender social contagion
Bonus Voicemail: Ch. 21: In response to a nuanced discussion of transitioning - Erin from Philadelphia, PA
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism:
TAKE ACTION
Call your Senators to tell them to support the Video Visitation and Inmate Calling in Prisons Act of 2017
Learn about and share facts on video visitation at PrisonPolicy.org/visitation
Follow Prison Policy Initiative on Twitter
EDUCATE YOURSELF
Massachusetts jail following nationwide trend, ending in-person inmate visits, in move critics call cruel (MassLive.com)
Video Calls Are Replacing In-Person Visits at Some Prisons (Smithsonian Magazine)
Senator Tammy Duckworth introduces the Video Visitation and Inmate Calling in Prisons Act of 2017 (PrisonPolicy.org)
Booker Urges FCC Chairman to Reconsider Decision Not to Protect Inmates Against Exorbitant Calling Charges (Booker.senate.gov)
Exploitation (PrisonPolicy.org)
Written by BOTL Communications Director, Amanda Hoffman
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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