Punishment, and whether private prisons healthy functioning of our criminal Justice System. Prisons have been making a comeback under president trump, poised to grow under his law and order approach and his immigration policy. The trumpy, administration reversed last years of Obama Administration directive to phase out privately run federal prisons. Biggestices for the two private Prison Companies have about double to, doubled, the geo group and cca. Have a really incredible panel joining us tonight. Shane bauer spent four months as a private prison guard and brought us a firsthand account of what happened in these prisons. He is the author of sliver of light. [applause] next, we have the former warden andan quentin state prison, the former undersecretary at the California Department of corrections and rehabilitation. [applause] santos is an investigative journalist for the Marshall Project, a nonprofit News Organization covering the u. S. Criminal Justice System. She wrote an extensiv
Everybody im steve it is my privilege to preside over this speakers pride ceremony our program is a little bit of it introduction a little bit of things in a discussion with her three winners that is great to see a good group here and thank you all for sharing this part of the evening with us. Let me first tell you about this prize since not all of you maybe is acquainted with it as we are. This is a memory of tony lucas was fired my generation of journalists by the time we were in college and started to think about what we wanted to know and what we wanted to write. And social issues in Common Ground was one of the big books on that shelf. When tony passed a lot of experience to come together to create this prize. So that is where this prize began. It has expanded gradually to include the history prize which is named for the late mark hinton who is a Senior Executive in the netherlands for the time of his death in 1997 and a deep reader and supporter of serious history. His wife maria
With this years lukas fridays ceremony our program is a little bit of the introduction and i hope an interesting discussion with our three winners and then with more celebration to come so thanks for all of you to share this part of the evening with us first i will tell you about this prize is you may not be as acquainted with it as we are but this is a prize in memory of tony lucas who inspired my generation the first time we started to taken college what we wanted to write and our generation grew up with a narrative nonfiction searching about social issues and Common Ground so when he passed a lot of people were inspired by his life to create this prius this is where the enterprise began it has expanded gradually for the Senior Executive in the netherlands at the time of his death in the 1997 as a reporter of serious history his children established the prize as part of a the lucas fridays project and his family has generally underwritten the prize since the inception in 1998 his wif
Weekend. Nightly news begins now. Mzp from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. Good evening. In the heat of summer, forest fires are not uncommon in southern europe, but the massive fire raging in portugal tonight is being called one of the worst in decades. More than 60 lives lost, many of them trapped in their cars as they tried to flee the flames. Several european nations are offering assistance as high winds and high temperatures tonight are making it even more difficult to control the blaze burning northeast of lisbon. We begin with lucy cavanaugh. Reporter a deadly inferno like no other. The wildfires that began spreading across this mountainous region late last night spared nothing in their path. Panic and fear as residents fled the fastmoving flames. Anguish the moment this wok realized she lost everything but her life. More than 60 people killed, nearly half died as they tried to escape, trapped in their cars on a road north of li
Courtrooms of the Thurgood Marshall u. S. Courthouse to celebrate an american hero. Thurgood marshall to whose memory this magnificent courthouse is dedicated to this courthouse where he served on the Second Circuit. We welcome our cspan audience to our proceedings, as well. Our gathering is at the intersection of two initiatives which engaged in the courts of the Second Circuit, and initiatives which i had the privilege of proposing which have taken life because of the creative and dedicated work of remarkable colleagues of the bench, bar and our court staff. The first, the 125th Anniversary Commemoration of the Second Circuit court of appeals wonderfully chaired by richard c. Wesley has several components including scholarly volumes and Public Events as we take stock of our past to better understand how our work has evolved so as to better meet the challenges of the present and the future. The second initiative, justice for all, courts and the community is a project of all of the cou