Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy #1605 Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure (Throwback)
Original 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.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 2: The Most Infamous Jail in America - Olurinatti - Air Date 3-29-23
Ch. 3: Behind the News: The State of the Carceral State w/ Wanda Bertram - Jacobin Radio - Air Date 3-20-23
Ch. 5: The Part of History You've Always Skipped | Neoslavery - Knowing Better - Air Date 4-4-22
Ch. 6: Penitence for the privileged - Beyond Prisons - Air Date 7
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Description: Photograph of the outside of Coyote Ridge Corrections Center. Barbed wire lines the fences of the entrance in front of the dark gray cement building with tinted windows.
Credit: "A sagebrush sea change from behind barbed wire" by U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Flickr | License: CC BY 2.0 | Changes: Cropped
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