A mess weve made of our justice not just in the last few years, but the foot from the century. We spent time just, you know, looking people up for no reason trying to criminalize drugs with no good to be want and even put children in prison as you know from the police, just insane. So we have a completely dysfunctional system, and i spend all the, shes working on the side of the system. I just think its about time that people on the outside notice like, you know, we covered the plight of julian assange, the world famous journalist, the un special rapporteur, meals meltzer has been on this program, alleging he was being tortured at belmarsh prison in london. You know, some people, i dont know, some Mainstream Media newspapers call it all in a camps these british presence. You begin the book in belmarsh. I do and its a horrific place. Its terrible to be easy. As a visitor, as a lawyer, it takes a long time to get even as a visa, but to actually be an inmate there. So destroy, you know, m
Law scholar and historian and given us a book for the ages in the midst of a pandemic so you said your goal what do you mean by that quick. Great question i wanted to write a book that would be a first draft of the history for the year of covid and beyond but to speak to the interested reader not just the specialist in the field i got the value added to readers you are fascinated of the legal issues in the last six months that really be on most peoples agenda until now. We never thought about past epidemics but we are now what we can learn from them and what do we know when it will be over so at the end of your book to ask you more about this question america has two histories one is far more appealing in the months and years ahead they will hold the power between them lets hope they make the right choice. I will be asking you more what that choice is at the end of the interview but for now , what is the ugly part of america . The ugly part is the discrimination against racial minoriti
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Welcome do going on the ground. A lot of people talking about britain, possibly breaking International Law rove a break said, but your new book is so beautiful and eloquently written about Britains Justice system. How difficult was it even to write a book at such a damning account of the judicial system . Here from the inside to be honest with you, to spend a bit of time last year, just thinking about what a mess weve made of our justice not just in the last few years, but foot from the century. We spent time just, you know, looking people up for no reason trying to criminalize drugs with no good to be want and even put children in prison as you know from the police, just insane. So we have a completely dysfunctional system and hospital all these years with the only side of the system. I just think its about time the people on the outside notice, like, you know, we cover the plight of julian assange, the world famous journalist, the un special rapporteur. Have neils meltzers been on th
But paid communist cuba has fewer than 200. 00. We speak to copresent of cuban covert, 19 Public Health and solidarity about fighting about endemic with internationalism. Oliseh more going on today is going on the ground offensive. Joe biden ever becomes us president. In january, he will preside over a country with the highest prison population in the world, 26 years after he supported a crime bill. The critics claim was responsible for a system of mass incarceration that imprisons more per capita than stalin or mao. , joining me now is the criminal defense lawyer of a 25 years with scoria, 18 k. , and us Justice Systems in his new book, justice on trial, radical solutions for a system at breaking point. Chris dorky pres, welcome, do going underground. A lot of people talking about britain, possibly breaking International Law or over a break said, but your new book is so beautiful and eloquently written about Britains Justice system. How difficult was it even to write a book such a dam