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Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Is the American prison system the most broken part of this country? Believe it or not, prison reform might be the one issue Republicans and Democrats can agree on. Scott Budnick, the producer behind The Hangover and Just Mercy, joins Nick to elucidate the many pitfalls of the U.S. incarceration system, why over 6 million Americans are under correctional supervision, why America is the only country that jails kids for life, and why we need to start giving people a second chance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Season 2 of Julia, the Max Original Series about the Life and Times of Julia Child returns
0:09.5	Thursday, November 16th.
0:11.6	Stream on Max and listen to dishing on Julia, the official companion
0:15.6	podcast. Welcome to Inside the Hive. I am your host Nick Bilton. this is it the last podcast of the decade for us but I
0:26.4	wanted to end this podcast of the year with a topic that is incredibly
0:31.4	important to me prison reform it It's something that I've
0:34.5	become really steeped in over the past couple of years. We've had a few guests on
0:38.1	talked about it. I've done some reporting on this. My mother actually used to work
0:42.0	in prisons in the United Kingdom and I on this who are in jail for life and some of them for a few years and you get this impression that this is a system that is so broken
0:57.4	It is kind of mind-boggling that we haven't fixed it yet and there is a good side though
1:02.0	It is an issue president reform that is bipartisan there are people in the
1:05.9	white house who care about it there are people on democratic side who care
1:08.8	about it there are people who are independence in the middle everywhere
1:11.3	this is an issue people want to fix.
1:13.0	My guest today is one of the people at the forefront of that.
1:16.0	His name is Scott Budnick.
1:18.0	He is formerly a big film producer who came up with the movie ideas for the hangover and created all those incredibly
1:24.8	hilarious movies and then afterwards got really into working with prisoners, working with
1:29.5	governors around the country trying to fix the prison issue as you're about to hear about and now he has a couple of
1:37.0	corporations and companies that he's working with where he is not only working on anti-recidivism,
1:42.8	but he's also working on creating stories
1:44.8	and films and TV shows.
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