#1605 Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure
Air Date: 1-23-2024
The recent discovery of hundreds of bodies buried behind a jail in unmarked graves sparks a renewed discussion about the futility and counter-productiveness of our system of incarceration and the context of our history that has brought us to this point.
Read more#1347 Locked in a Petri Dish (Mass Pandemic Incarceration)
Air Date: 4–12-2020
Today we take a look at the way mass incarceration is coming back to bite the US, as jails, prisons and immigrant detention centers are becoming Petri dishes for the coronavirus that will help perpetuate the pandemic as well as non-virus related deaths throughout the population.
Read more#1313 Why Prison Abolition is not Nearly as Scary as it Sounds
Air Date: 10–22-2019
Today we take a look at why the concept of prison abolition isn’t as scary as it sounds, the answer to the question of what would replace prisons and why you’re wrong for even asking that in the first place.
Read more#1300 Progressive prosecutors are repairing our injustice system from the ground up
Air Date: 8–27-2019
Today we take a look at the movement to elect progressives to the position of chief prosecutors in cities across the country in an effort to curb mass incarceration and bring a real understanding of justice back to our justice system
Read more#1171 Debt, profit and modern-day slavery (Injustice System)
#1122 Real-Life Alternatives to the Prison/Industrial Complex
#1048 Slavery in America is still alive and well (Prison Labor)
Air Date: 10-04-2016
Today we look at the ways in which the 13th amendment to the constitution opened the doors to a mere evolution of slavery rather than it’s abolition as our national myth contends
Read more#990 Prisoners for profit (Prison-Industrial Complex)
Air date: 2-12-16
Today we look at the intersection of market capitalism and our prison system where the private prison industry makes billions and lobbies for ever harsher punishments to continually grow our prison population
Read more#959 The need to do better (Mass Incarceration)
Air date: 10-9-15
Today we take a look at the fundamental flaws of our criminal justice system and the emerging consensus that we need to make the changes necessary to do better
Read more#930 Our prisons: cruel and counterproductive (Injustice System)
Today we take a look at the the US prison and bail system and explain exactly how it’s built to systematically punish the poor
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