(2013/05/18) Homeland Insecurity Part 2: Justice? (Police State)
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🗓️ 18 May 2013
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Edition #718
Homeland Insecurity Part 2: Justice?
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Corporate Prison Nightmare for Employees - The Young Turks - Air Date: 03-23-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Legalize it - Peter Tosh
Ch. 4: Act 2: For Profit Prison Officers Used In Police Raids - This Week in Blackness - Air Date 12-5-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Ain't no reason - Brett Dennen
Ch. 6: Act 3: For-Profit Prisons Admit Lying to Get Taxpayer Money - The Young Turks - Air Date: 04-13-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: (Find A) Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
Ch. 8: Act 4: We Can't Afford To Defend The Poor - Moyers And Company - Air Date 3-29-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Kill the poor - Dead Kennedys
Ch. 10: Act 5: Final Meals of Innocent Executed Inmates - The Young Turks - Air Date: 02-15-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Certainty - Laura Gibson
Ch. 12: Act 6: Once On Death Row, He Now Fights To Defeat The Death Penalty - NPR - Air Date: 3-11-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Mr. Brightside - The Killers
Ch. 14: Act 7: Georgia Rushes to Execute Before Lethal Drugs Expire - The Young Turks - Air Date: 03-03-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Ashamed - Deer Tick
Ch. 16: Act 8: Neglected Prisoner Gets $15.5 Million After 22 months in Solitary - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-12-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Frontier Psychiatrist - The Avalanches
Ch. 18: Act 9: Man Forgotten in Solitary Confinement For Years - The Young Turks - Air Date: 03-16-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Forgotten - Neil Diamond
Ch. 20: Act 10: The Drum Major Instinct - Martin Luther King Jr.
Voicemails:
Ch. 21: Comparing security cameras to gun registration list - Fozzie
Ch. 22: Insights on security camera technology - Matt
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 23: Final comments on the implications of a system of cameras
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.5 | the membership tab at bestableleft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of Left Podcasts with Cups Today from the Young |
| 0:12.2 | Turks. |
| 0:13.2 | This week in Blackness, Moyers and Company in PR, the David Pakman show, and a speech |
| 0:17.0 | by Martin Luther King, Jr., and a note of clarification that when you hear some progressives |
| 0:21.0 | being reflexively anti-corporate and you wonder why they're like that, this is a good |
| 0:25.5 | example of why. |
| 0:30.2 | Anytime you incentivize profit or if you create a profit motive for a prison system, |
| 0:38.5 | that will give these corporations that run these prisons incentive to pass these tough |
| 0:43.8 | on-crime laws, like SB 1070 in Arizona as a perfect example about the private prison |
| 0:49.0 | industry was behind that. |
| 0:50.8 | Well, we have an example in Ohio where the private prison system not only fails to save |
| 0:55.8 | money, but it's actually terrible for the employees at these prisons and it's terrible |
| 1:01.2 | for the inmates at these prisons. |
| 1:03.4 | Recently, there was a report done on the Lake Erie prison in Ohio and there is a high |
| 1:09.1 | turnover rate among its employees because of the violence that occurs within that prison. |
| 1:16.0 | So according to one former correctional officer Paul Reynolds, he says it was common |
| 1:21.1 | for us to speak about who was going to die first. |
| 1:23.9 | They were afraid to get sued for any little thing, so management basically tied our hands |
| 1:27.6 | on everything. |
| 1:28.6 | Within three months, we lost that prison to those inmates. |
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