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good afternoon, i m 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 they re released. to my far right is elizabeth hinton asian assistant professor of history and african-american 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 pov ....
producer and a prison rights activist. the founds the prison to college pipeline program which provides inmates access to college course cozy college when they re released. to my far right is elizabeth hinton asian assistant professor of history and african-american 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. i don t know how many people have any connection to any of the prisons in illinois, but my guess is that they are fairly distant to many of us. prisons are in many ways huge industry in illinois and at the center of the criminal justice system here. although you both come at the issue from different angles, i d like too first talk about how you came to the subject. baz. so, i was i actually in a strange way came through journalism. was doing a lot of writing for main stream publications about cr ....
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