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episode 17: Criminal Justice and Restoration - Why the Lock Up Should Be on Lockdown
Criminal justice is a complex topic with many ethical streams. This week the team takes on a bird's eye view of justice in the prison industry, capital punishment and immigration, to name a few, and hidden factors many might not think of in these issues. They explore what it might mean to seek restorative justice, both in the ways we challenge our systems and in how we treat others. The episode ends with a new round of Famous Christians for 100, where they try to guess who said what in the media recently.
Host Check In (00:29)
Criminal Justice Conversation (06:12)
Famous Christians for 100 (50:53)
RELEVANT LINKS
- U.S. Has World’s Highest Incarceration Rate (statistics from Public Reference Bureau)
- Criminal Justice Fact Sheet (statistics on race and incarceration from NAACP)
- Shocking Facts About America’s For-Profit Prison Industry by Beth Buczynski (article from Truth-Out.org)
- Pin the Tail on the Death Penalty (an irenicon article referencing death penalty disparities)
- Pennsylvania Judge Gets “Life Sentence” For Prison Kickback Scheme (article)
- Making Sex Offenders Pay… and Pay and Pay and Pay - A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast
- Neuroscience Suggests that Brian Williams May In Fact Be “Misremembering” by Allison Eck (article)
- How the Brain Works (and doesn’t) vs Our Justice System by Amy Cools (article)
- Get on the Bus (organization uniting children with their parents in prison)
- Racism and Dialogue - “But I Don’t See Color?” - 008 (Irenicast episode)
- Racism and Dialogue BONUS Episode - Interview with Mariama White-Hammond - 008.5(Irenicast episode)
- California Town Turns Away Buses Of Detained Immigrants (article)
- 'It was cold, very cold': migrant children endure border patrol 'ice boxes' (article)
- Gun killings fell by 40 percent after Connecticut passed this law (article)
- Republicans uphold funding ban for CDC gun violence research (article)
- Black and Pink (organization)
THANK YOU
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