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Happened in the decades before. Its a lot of policy like the 1994 bill, and democracy was basically neglectful. It neglected the ramifications that you saw up on the film, the impact of relying on incarceration, the impact on families and individuals and communities. It absolutely neglected that. It neglected the evidence that we know that exists about the kinds of good policies that can actually put people on the road to success that can actually deliver Public Safety for us, and that can actually be the spine for good policy. So democracy has work to do here in a different way now. We have a job to do over the next decades to turn back what we have built, and so thats why its good that all of you are in this room and you will go about your work focusing not only on training and education and making sure that programs, the quality programs are, find their way back into prison and into the reentry sphere but youre also going to hav ....
Population, 2. 3 Million People incarcerated. We spend over 50 billion a year on corrections and when it comes to the Racial Disparities that our system there are more africanamericans under correctional supervision today than there were slaves at the height of slavery in 1850. Host how did we get there . Guest its all really goes back to the war on drugs in many respects, which began in the late 70s and created a series of disparities in sentencing and goes back to tough on crime sentencing laws that made it easier for people to go to jail, easy or for them to stay there and easier for them to stay there for extended period of time. Host you are a native new yorker and there was a period in the 70s where new york was pretty ripe with crime. People were scared. Was there a different solution . Guest well, for when fear is a terrible peer is not something to be ruled by wh ....
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 < ....