From New York this is Democracy Now.

There's still a heap of them who have not fit for the these animals.

I have photographs here.

Now what you guys have to take a look at this, of the sale that he was housed in.

This is inexcusable and is deplorable.

Several top officials at the Fountain County Jail in Georgia have resigned.

After a black man held in the jail, psychiatric wing was eaten alive by insects and bug

beds and bed bugs in his cell.

We'll look at the tragic death of 35-year-old LaShawn Thompson.

We'll speak to his brother and sister as well as the family's attorney in a global TV

radio news exclusive.

Then as a new study finds poverty is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States,

we'll speak with the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Princeton Professor Matthew Desmond

about his new book, Poverty by America.

This book tries to answer two big questions.

Why is there so much poverty in America?

And what can we do to eliminate it?

And it argues that many of us, those of us that are secure, house, lucky, we contribute

to the problem.

You know, we exploit the poor, we segregate the poor, and we support a nation that frankly

gives most to families that need it the least.

All that and more coming up.

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