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The Prison Pipeline [Rebroadcast]
Democracy in Danger
English - May 04, 2021 12:00 - 27 minutes - 63.5 MBSociety & Culture News Politics democracy election history illiberalism media news politics unitedstates world Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: S2 E12 – Nuestra América
Next Episode: S2 E13 – Bittersweet Dreams
As states prepare to redraw their congressional districts, some will benefit from the prison-industrial complex: There are more people behind bars in America than in any country, and inmates are disproportionately Black and Latino. This week we’re replaying an interview about mass incarceration with Yale historian Elizabeth Hinton, who says minority communities suffered disproportionately from successive “wars” meant to save them — from poverty, from crime, from drugs — but which criminalized them instead.