Tana Ganyva, one of the co-hosts on The Young Turks, responded to a criticism by saying she was "insane" and that Rikers Island should be closed. She also tweeted: Do you have a single ounce of compassion for the victims? This is about locking up homeless people in jail for committing things like quote-unquote, open-air drug use or defecation -- which is hard to do behind closed doors when you don't have a home. Jeffrey Katzenberg brought up this issue because he's invested $20 million into the Young Turks. He says it has nothing to do with his anti-homeless policy but everything to do with how
In this public News Brief, we discuss the nominally progressive news network's lies and omissions when covering efforts to reduce the US's unprecedented jail and prison population.