Opioid addiction and the white face of mass incarceration

To the Point

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4.4 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In America's big, metropolitan counties, prison populations are going down, but in suburban and rural communities, more people are doing big time than ever before. We hear how prosecutors and judges are cracking down on drug addicts in the white, middle class.

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0:00.0	L.A. has the largest jail system in the country.
0:05.5	You got people that been in jail just like one time and their life can't get nothing because of whatever mistake they made.
0:10.9	I stole some ground turkey because I wanted to feed my family. We was hungry.
0:15.5	Off the Block. Stories tracing the path from city block to cell block and back.
0:20.5	Find it now at kCRW.com or subscribe on iTunes. Stories tracing the path from city block to cell block and back.
0:24.4	Find it now at kCRW.com or subscribe on iTunes.
0:37.9	From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.
0:41.8	Mass incarceration in Middle America.
0:47.6	Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point.
0:51.7	Prison reform is reducing inmate populations from big American cities,
0:55.2	but in many suburbs and rural communities, it's just the reverse.
1:00.9	The same crimes that call for probation or just months in jail in Cincinnati, Ohio, are leading to years in state prison in nearby Dearborn County, Indiana. The new convicts are not Latinos
1:06.1	and African Americans in prison disproportionately for so many years, they're part of the white middle class.
1:12.1	One reason, addiction to prescription drugs, that's created a new market for cheap heroin and the
1:17.0	crime that goes with it. It's also due to the punitive use of discretion by prosecutors and judges,
1:23.2	raising serious new questions about equal treatment under the law. First, here's the news.
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