#1605 Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 January 2024
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Air Date 1/23/2024
The recent discovery of hundreds of bodies buried behind a jail in unmarked graves sparks a renewed discussion about the futility and counter-productiveness of our system of incarceration and the context of our history that has brought us to this point.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we will |
| 0:07.4 | look at the recent discovery of hundreds of bodies buried behind a jail in unmarked graves and how that has sparked a renewed |
| 0:15.5 | discussion about the futility and counterproductiveness of our system of |
| 0:20.2 | incarceration and the context of our history that has brought us to this point. |
| 0:25.7 | Sources today include the PBS news hour, O'Loranati on YouTube, Jacobin Radio, Al Jazeera English, and Knowing Better, with additional members only clips |
| 0:36.5 | from Beyond Prisons and millennials are killing capitalism. I understand, Ms Wade, you contacted the Jackson Police Department after reporting that |
| 0:52.2 | your son was missing several times, even after he had been buried |
| 0:56.0 | without your knowledge, give us a sense of what they told you over those many months and what |
| 1:01.8 | those months were like for you, not knowing where your son was? |
| 1:05.0 | Well it was devastating to me because I didn't know where he were and then I was calling them they didn't have no |
| 1:14.2 | information to let me know have they you know found any information. |
| 1:20.5 | All the details that I gave them for lead, you know, they never came back to me to say, well, you know, that lead led it to something that we can work with. And I just couldn't believe that he had disappeared off the face of Erb and nobody knows where he at and it was just horrible for me and every day I wake up I just want I just look look just looking for |
| 1:46.4 | him just out in the streets looking for him and I mean that's hard breaking for |
| 1:51.0 | a mother and can't say hello, don't know how to get in touch with him. |
| 1:58.0 | That is a horrible thing for a mother. |
| 2:01.0 | Mr. Crump, after it was discovered that Dexter had been killed, that he had been buried in this grave. |
| 2:08.0 | His body was exhumed in November. |
| 2:10.0 | There was an autopsy conducted. |
| 2:12.0 | He was given a proper burial but I also |
| 2:14.5 | understand a wallet was found in his front pocket with his ID his home address his |
| 2:19.2 | insurance card what's the explanation officials give for why no one was notified he had been killed and buried? |
| 2:26.1 | There really is no explanation that they have offered. They claimed that they tried to reach out to Miss |
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