Currently, over 7 million people are under some form of carceral supervision in the United States–from custody to bail to probation. For our final episode, 70 Million reporter Mark Betancourt moderates a conversation about the role we, the public, play in creating and sustaining the matrix of incarceration as it exists today. He’s joined by Cornell professor Peter K. Enns, author of the book Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World, and Insha Rahman, Vice President of advocacy and partnerships at the Vera Institute.
Find a resource guide and annotated transcript at our website here.
Introducing Still Paying the Price: Reparations in Real Terms
How Those Drowning in Carceral Debt Are Lining Others’ Pockets
Why Policing Our Schools Backfires
How Jailhouse Informants Rig the Justice System
Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 2
Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1
Grand Juries, the Black Box of Justice Reform?
Highway Robbery: How a Small-town Traffic Trap Became a Legal Black Hole
How Guilty Pleas Fastrack and Derail Justice
They’re Running for Office to Change the Criminal (Injustice) System
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Taking Mental Health Crises Out of Police Hands
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An Effort to Hold Prosecutors Accountable
We Went Back to See How These Reforms Worked
Why COVID-19 Goes from Jails to Communities
How Black Women Are Rightfully “Taking Seats at the Table”
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