Producer and a prison rights activist. The founds the prison to College Pipeline program which provides inmates access to College Course cozy college when theyre released. To my far right is Elizabeth Hinton asian assistant professor of history and africanamerican studies at harvard university. Her Research Focus us on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th 20th century united states. She is the author or from the war of poverty to the war on crime. I dont know how many people have any connection to any of the prisons in illinois, but my guess is that they are fairly distant to many of us. Prisons are in many ways Huge Industry in illinois and at the center of the criminal Justice System here. Although you both come at the issue from different angles, id like too first talk about how you came to the subject. Baz. So, i was i actually in a strange way came through journalism. Was doing a lot of writing for main stream publications about crime and pop culture and th
Good afternoon, im steve mills, reporter the talk tribune tied we talk about prison, the astounding growth of the prison population in america and the roll prisons play in society and how that might change in the future mitchell guests are Baz Dreisinger and Elizabeth Hinton. Baz is the author of incarceration nation a she visited prisons in Nine Countries to better understand our attitudes towards crime, punishment and incarceration. A professor at john j. College in new york, baz is also a journalist, film and radio producer and a prison rights activist. The founds the prison to College Pipeline program which provides inmates access to College Course cozy college when theyre released. To my far right is Elizabeth Hinton asian assistant professor of history and africanamerican studies at harvard university. Her Research Focus us on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th 20th century united states. She is the author or from the war of poverty to the war on crime.
Course, in the late 60s those demographics were huge but to see in immigration of groups with higher rates of interpersonal violence along those lines but now i dont see that yes there is still the legal migration and yes they do have high crime rates, but it seems to be manageable and the sea anything growing at a proportion to be unmanageable so far i think we are reaching a political consensus that the border does have to be closed off to keep up with the situation people coming in to United States illegally i think the left end of the right to our reaching a consensus on that but i dont see the immigration migration high crime and those who are coming to the country like the asian population or Eastern European population have the low crime rate. So if anything theyre contributing to the stability and certainly the criminal Justice System has been strengthened and toughened although we have reached a consensus that is so punitive and relaxed to be less punitive so i dont see a lot
Tiring. The one thing i enjoyed was i got to know voters and residents. You do not really get to do that when you run citywide. I enjoyed campaigning more because i had time to meet voters individually, and i loved it. I really enjoyed being out on the field. I spent all lot of time doing it. Which i thought was important both for me because i get a deeper understanding of what people care about, and what people loved about the district and the city, and i think it was better for our community that i was out there one on one. What are the Biggest Issues for San Francisco right now . Supervisor kim Economic Development. That is the Biggest Issue for San Francisco and the country. Our economy is not in the best place that it could be. We really do see that people want to see more jobs for everybody. Second, it is probably a myriad of issues. For our district, and think Public Safety issues ranging from lowlevel crime to larger Public Safety issues. We held our first hearing on pedestrian
Let it be voted on. Now,ly qualify, i am a registered republican. I have been registered as an independent. I have voted for two democratic president s. But we must all remember, we are americans first, party last. Have a good day. From randall, washington, d. C. , is up next. Hello. Caller hello . Youre on. Caller randall in d. C. . Yes, youre on. Caller okay. I simply want to say people are forgetting, they voted for gridlock, the republicans did. They voted republicans in twice. They initially voted them into the house so they would they botched the republic argument about all the power rested in one party. So, to counter obama, and im sure a little of it had some race factor in it, they voted in gridlock. Nothing is said about it because they thought the republicans would do even more when they voted them into the senate. And, like i said, the other factor is race. People working class people who are democrats, republicans, black or white, should all be working together against cla