By contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Incarceration rate is one area in which this country shouldnt be leading the world. But we are. It is at an estimated 2. 4 million adults contributing to the profit of privatization of prisons putting profits over rehabilitation. Joining us tonight to talk about it, bryan stevenson. The founder and executive director of the alabamabased equal Justice Initiative which has won major challenges to unfair sentencing as well as for those on death row. Hes a macarthur genius, harvard law. His new book will be out in october. Professor at nyu. Im delighted to be here. Thank you for your work. First of all. Let me judgment in and make of the most time we have with a direct and forthright we. What is wrong with forprove prisons . Everything in america these days seems to be moving in the direction of privatization. Whats wrong with forprofit prisons . I think it is corrupt in our criminal justice system. Our incentive ought
Five indictments. Sparking months of demonstrations including a couple of weeks of protests that sometimes turned violent. Jay nixon called a state of emergency in advance and called up the National Guard. Early last night he pleaded for calm and so did Michael Browns family after they were informed of the decision. Robert ray is in clayton, where the grand jury was working on the case of officer wilson. Robert you were there, as prosecutor mccullough announced the decision of the grand jury. What was the reaction of the crowd near you. Antonio, good evening. In front of the Justice Center in clayton, you know it was silent to be honest with you. Out here you could hear a pin drop as we were listening to the prosecutor, robert mccullough. You know interesting, details came out, the grand jury started meeting on august 20th, antonio. They met for 70 hours over the course of the past three and a half months. They were able to hear over 60 witnesses and they came to the conclusion that th
President s action as an illegitimate power grab. Democrats are Standing Firm behind the president. Take a listen to Mitch Mcconnell and harry reid today on the senate floor. If president obama imposes his will on the country, congress will act. We are considering a variety of options. Make no mistake when the newly elected representatives of the people take their seats, they will act. And he knows. This is not how a democracy is supposed to work. He told us so himself. The meeting we had in the white house last night we had hispanic caucus, the black caucus, everyone there was telling the president weve got your back. Peak immigrant groups from all over america. The catholic bishops, the mormon church. This is something that is fair and the right thing to do. Those two guys have very different perceptions of what is going on. Going into the speech tonight which is side, democrats republicans which side has the upper hand . If you look at what happened since we last met on this electro
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