#1361 Building a Better System of Justice
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 8/12/2020
Today we take a look at Restorative Justice as an antidote to a wide range of injustices we face, from mass incarceration to having a toddler throw a cheerio at your forehead and much of what lies in between.
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SHOW NOTES
Prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba wants us to explore some truly radical notions. Hear her dismantle what she calls the current "criminal punishment system" and instead employ the ideology of restorative justice.
Ch. 2: The transformative power of restorative justice Part 1 - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 6-18-20
Studies show restorative justice programs leave survivors more satisfied, cut recidivism rates, and cost less. sujatha baliga is the director of the Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice.
Prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba wants us to explore some truly radical notions. Hear her dismantle what she calls the current "criminal punishment system" and instead employ the ideology of restorative justice.
Bob discusses the problems with prisons and the alternatives to mass incarceration with Danielle Sered
Ch. 5: The transformative power of restorative justice Part 2 - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 6-18-20
Studies show restorative justice programs leave survivors more satisfied, cut recidivism rates, and cost less. sujatha baliga is the director of the Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice.
Bob discusses the problems with prisons and the alternatives to mass incarceration with Danielle Sered
Danielle discusses the alternative options to a violent prison system with community interactions over punishment.
When people feel responsible and connected it really changes their lives. Restorative justice works in schools. Our system is a goliath, but we are a million sparks to break it down.
Ch. 9: The transformative power of restorative justice Part 3 - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 6-18-20
Studies show restorative justice programs leave survivors more satisfied, cut recidivism rates, and cost less. sujatha baliga is the director of the Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice.
Bob discusses the problems with prisons and the alternatives to mass incarceration with Danielle Sered
What does restorative justice look like? Community-driven repair, making sure the victims and perpetrators work together, rather than punishing both parties.
Bob discusses the problems with prisons and the alternatives to mass incarceration with Danielle Sered
Ch. 13: The transformative power of restorative justice Part 4 - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 6-18-20
Studies show restorative justice programs leave survivors more satisfied, cut recidivism rates, and cost less. sujatha baliga is the director of the Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left by Cast in which we shall learn |
| 0:07.3 | about restorative justice as an antidote to a wide range of injustices we face from mass |
| 0:13.0 | incarceration to having a toddler throw a cheerio at your forehead and much of what lies |
| 0:18.6 | in between. |
| 0:20.0 | But before we get to that, which is mostly focused on our official carceral justice system, |
| 0:26.1 | I want to talk for a minute about the Court of Public Opinion and the phenomenon that has |
| 0:31.6 | taken society by storm and sent the internet into a tizzy. Of course, I'm speaking of cancel culture |
| 0:38.7 | and so we have people going around suggesting that people need to be canceled for their |
| 0:44.8 | actions or their statements and cancelling can mean a lot of different things. It often means |
| 0:51.3 | that they should be fired from their jobs and so forth. And then you got a group of people |
| 0:57.2 | I'm calling the decryors. They're decrying the whole concept of cancel culture as anti-free speech |
| 1:04.7 | and harmful to society and doling out punishments that don't fit the crime and so on. |
| 1:11.6 | And then you've got the group that I was more or less putting myself in which is the dismissers. |
| 1:16.7 | The dismissers were going around thinking, look, there's no way that this is as big of a problem |
| 1:23.1 | as the decryors are making it out to be. And in a lot of these instances, |
| 1:30.0 | the people being canceled have a lot of privilege. They're used to being able to say and do whatever |
| 1:36.2 | they want. And now that they're being called out for it, they're crumbling under the weight of |
| 1:41.1 | criticism that they've never had to experience before. I've adjusted my perspective of |
| 1:45.8 | bit from just thinking of it as a non-issue. So for the sake of this conversation, let's assume |
| 1:51.8 | that what the decryors say is true, that it's bad for society, cancelling people is doling out |
| 1:58.4 | punishment that is harsher than what the so-called crimes would otherwise call for, |
| 2:05.7 | and that innocent people maybe are being punished unfairly or that even guilty people are being |
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