Good Ship Earth
A Change Has Got to Come – Our Prison Industrial Complex
Mike Selig, Host
One part of our society that has to change is our criminal justice system. We’ve seen too many rich white men commit financial crimes or sexual assaults and escape accountability, while the poor, and people of color have the book thrown at them.
When I started doing my research for this story, I found a thread that astounded me, it connected our current prison systems racist injustice directly back to the Post Civil War South.
The final word is: It is time to change our criminal justice system to become color blind and free of the upper-class bias that has pervaded for so long.
Show References
American Prison, by Shane Bauer
Worse Than Slavery, by David Oshinsky
Pa. Judge Sentenced to 28 Years In Massive Juvenile Justice Bribery Scandal
NPR.Org Report, by Eyder Peralta
The True History of America’s Private Prison Industry
Time Magazine, by Shane Bauer
Yes, U.S. Locks People Up at a Higher Rate Than Any Other Country
Washington Post, by Michelle Ye Hee Lee
Private Prisons Fuel Corruption
Northwest Missourian, by Nathan English
Prison Industrial Complex
The Atlantic, by Eric Schlosser
