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🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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DeRay, Brittany, Clint and Sam discuss the racial disparity in student debt, remaking the charity system, mandatory minimums hiding police misconduct, and Trump cutting 500,000 student lunches for cruelty's sake. DeRay talks to residents and corrections officers at the Young Men Emerging unit in the D.C. Department of Corrections about policing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trump-administration-rule-could-end-free-school-lunches-for-about-500000-children/2019/09/24/4c488f66-def1-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/20/20856818/wealth-tax-emmanuel-saez-gabriel-zucman-bill-gates-charity https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/opinion/mandatory-minimum-sentencing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/opinion/mandatory-minimum-sentencing.html https://www.getquip.com/affiliate?affiliate=crooked&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=pod_save_the_people https://simplisafe.com/people https://crooked.com/podcast-series/america-dissected/

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Durey and welcome to Batsy of the People in this episode with me, Brittany
0:05.3	Clinton, Sam.
0:06.3	Sam said his news in separately because he was traveling with the host of meetings around
0:10.4	policing.
0:11.4	This week we're doing something a little different for the interview in this episode.
0:13.7	We're sharing a conversation I have with the residents and corrections officers at the
0:16.8	Young Men Emerging Unit or YMEE and the DC Department of Corrections.
0:20.4	It's a unit in the DC jail that is structured around a mentorship program where residents
0:24.0	can apply to become mentors to other residents in the unit.
0:27.5	The rehabilitation is key and I feel like it's easy to just lock someone up.
0:33.2	It's easy to just send them to the whole, send them to the councilor.
0:36.7	It's easy to do that.
0:38.4	But if you can teach a brother like myself how to go back to the community, it's an amazing
0:43.6	thing.
0:45.0	The message for this week is something that I've had to remind myself of a lot.
0:48.9	Put things out in the world that you're proud of.
0:51.4	And try not to put it out until you're proud of it.
0:54.2	We so often are pushed by the pressures of our peers, by the news cycle, by what we
1:00.2	think matters in the moment.
1:02.9	And sometimes we lose sight of like we know what it's like to put out something we're
1:07.1	proud of.
1:08.1	I know what it's like when I write something I'm proud of but when I give a speech and
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