#1372 Incarceration
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🗓️ 7 January 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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This week's guest host Catherine Jenkinson speaks with President Jefferson about incarceration policies in early and present day America. Jefferson was a reformist, and revised the entire law code of Virginia. Jefferson was enamored with the work of Cesare Beccaria.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners and welcome to this week's edition of the Thomas Jefferson |
| 0:08.0 | Hour. I'm not on the show, but I thought I would sneak in and be on the podcast intro while your father is |
| 0:15.5 | away Catherine. Welcome back to to the broadcast. Thank you I'm so glad to be here |
| 0:20.9 | It's always so much fun and it's really fun to have you back in town. You've traveled |
| 0:24.8 | back from England and you've acclimated to our dry cold climate. Oh barely. We |
| 0:31.6 | were in Grand Forks, North Dakota the other day and it was just so bitterly |
| 0:35.9 | cold. |
| 0:36.9 | Clay has excused himself for a moment so I thought I'd just talk to you. Anything you'd like to talk |
| 0:42.4 | about with this week's program. |
| 0:44.0 | Well, I should first tell them people that you're the host this week. |
| 0:47.0 | I am the host back by unpopular demand as usual. |
| 0:50.0 | That's not true. |
| 0:51.0 | That's not true. |
| 0:52.0 | No, it's so lovely to be here and I think that this is a really important topic and so it's |
| 0:57.1 | interesting to be able to talk to. You obviously have a real passion about this. |
| 1:01.1 | I do. I confess I don't know nearly enough about it but |
| 1:04.2 | I'm curious and I'd like to know more and I'm certainly interested in the way it |
| 1:09.0 | worked during Jefferson's time. Yeah and how it doesn't work during our time, it sounds like as well. |
| 1:14.0 | No kidding. |
| 1:15.0 | Do you know anyone in prison? |
| 1:16.0 | I do not. |
| 1:17.0 | Sit down, we're doing the podcast intro. |
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