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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.
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Surpass by 60 or is the antimcconnell vote going to stay with him in the general election, and idaho, major outside groups who say that mike simp is going to pay for being too close to boehner and too cooperative and that is going to fizzle out, and those who are not seeming to be in play are in idaho so the e ttea party could 0 for 3. Another part of the storyline which is important to democrats is that the battle for the control of the senate is what is on the line in 2014. Democrats are leaning on brand names, political dynasties and two of them are on the ballot today, and democrat Alison Lundergan grimes, and her father was one of the cogs of the democratic party, and then Michelle Nunn daughter of sam nu nunn, and both of them are hoping that the name brand trumps the party line. And another story is that the republicans have a good slew of women candidates they have nominated and a couple that we are watching today and you brought up oregon, is she going to be as good of a candi
Flight Lieutenant Gregory Gomez, 32, had been drinking gin and tonics from a pint glass when security guards stopped him trying to leave at the end of the night in his car.