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Showing videos filed under: incarceration
Evicting Rioters from Public Housing? David Cameron Meet Michelle Alexander
August 14, 2011Getting tough the US way has created a closed-system of mass incarceration in which ex felons are discriminated against in housing and employment -- for life. And yet that is precisely the system British Prime Minister David Cameron seems keen on in response to last week's riots.Deborah Small: A Real Conversation on Drug Policy
April 14, 2011"We're able to maintain the illusion that we're fighting a war on drugs and that we're protecting young people we're doing it on the backs of poor people. Poor people of color, rural poor people, poor people who don't have access to jobs. We have one group of people who we've said that their employment is going to be the keepers of these other people that we've locked up for drug use because they don't have jobs and you don't have jobs ever. We've built a whole system out of policing, locking up and controlling poor people," says Deborah Small, who's dedicated her life to fighting for a responsible drug policy that helps, not hurts.Heather Boushey, Deborah Small, and Cutting the Future
April 13, 2011"We need to go back to the day where we actually do ask everyone to pay their fair share--and that includes the wealthiest among us," says Heather Boushey, Senior Economist for the Center for American Progress. She joins us today to unpack President Obama's April 13 address on fiscal policy and deficit reduction.Susan Burton & Kimberle Crenshaw: Hope After Prison
November 17, 2010Hope is in short supply these days, particularly for those in America's packed prison system. California incarcerates more women than any other state, and when those women get out of jail they often have nothing more than $200 in their pockets and hope to go on. Susan Burton was one of those women once, and now she's founder and executive director of A New Way of Life Reentry Project, a nonprofit organization that helps formerly incarcerated women get their lives back together.Fixing Health Care for Real & Susan Burton, CNN Hero
November 16, 2010As Republican freshmen head to Congress, many of them are riding a wave of promises to repeal "Obamacare." As Jamie Court noted on our show last week, one of the most unpopular elements of the bill is the mandate that Americans purchase private health insurance. But Wendell Potter, former health insurance industry insider, notes that that is the part of the bill that is most popular with the insurance companies that bankrolled those same Republicans.From "Tough on Crime" To "Smart on Crime"
June 25, 2010The United States incarcerates more of its population, both in aggregate numbers and per capita, than any other country in the world--four times as much as China, which has more people and makes no pretense at being a democracy. This is just one of the troubling facts about the prison industry in the US that Robert Perkinson uncovers in his book, Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire. He traces the modern prison complex to its Southern roots, and connects its racial disparities to the backlash against the civil rights movement.Don Rojas, Prison Reform, and Obama v. McChrystal
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