LEMON DROP | The American Prison System is Modern Slavery with Fox & Rob Richardson

The Don Lemon Show

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Society & Culture, News

3.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Don Lemon sits down with Fox and Rob Richardson for a powerful conversation about love, resilience, and the urgent need for prison reform. The couple, married for 38 years, endured 21 of those years as an incarcerated family after Rob, a first-time offender, was sentenced to an outrageous 61 years in prison by the Louisiana justice system. Fox launched a tireless campaign to bring him home, culminating in his release in 2018. Their story was captured in the Oscar-nominated documentary TIME, which Barack Obama called one of his favorite films of the year. Now, they’re back with a follow-up: Time II: Unfinished Business...and they’re not done fighting for justice. Tune in as they reflect on their journey, the broken system that upended their lives, and why their work is far from over. This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://zbiotics.com/LEMONDROPS and use LEMONDROPS at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.8	Today I'm chatting with a pair of particularly inspiring people. They have been a couple.
0:51.8	Their name is Fox and Rob Rich. They've been a couple for
0:54.9	38 years. They survived 21 of those years as an incarcerated family. Way until you hear their
1:01.6	story. It's fascinating. In 1997, Rob, a first-time offender in Louisiana was sentenced to 61 years
1:08.4	in prison as a result of an absurd, overzealous prosecution.
1:13.3	In the years to follow, Fox spearheaded a valiant campaign to secure her husband's freedom,
1:19.0	a goal she achieved in the summer of 2018.
1:22.7	And in the years since, they have worked as powerful advocates for prison reform in 2020.
1:29.0	They were the subjects of the Oscar-nominated documentary Time, named one of Barack Obama's
1:35.1	favorite films of the year.
1:36.5	And now Fox and Rob are back with a sequel, Time 2, Unfinished Business.
1:43.5	Hi, how are you guys doing?
1:45.6	Hey, hey.
1:46.2	We are with D. Don Lemon.
1:48.0	Life just making me.
1:50.0	Thank you so much for joining us.
1:51.4	It's indeed an honor to have both of you on.
1:55.2	Rob, I just provided the audience with this brief context of your life.
2:00.2	And I mean, it's been fascinated.
2:01.7	I know it's been tough.
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