Pandemics And Prison (with Keri Blakinger)
Pod Save the People
Pod Save the People
4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week, DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss Joseph Lowery's legacy, class divides in medical care, grocery store supply chains, and Rhode Island's quarantine enforcement. Then, DeRay sits down with Keri Blakinger from The Marshall Project, to examine the impacts of coronavirus on incarcerated people.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/heb-prepared-coronavirus-pandemic/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/business/economy/coronavirus-inequality.html
https://apnews.com/d2d33910b154509072486310400cc32b
www.causebox.com, code PEOPLE
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Duret. |
| 0:04.1 | I won't look about 70 people in this episode, I sit down with Carrie Blackinger. |
| 0:08.0 | She's a journalist with a Marshall project who covers social justice and the criminal |
| 0:10.8 | justice system. |
| 0:12.0 | She also is someone who was formerly incarcerated and learned about so many of these problems, |
| 0:17.0 | up close and personal. |
| 0:18.5 | We talk about her history of work and the many issues surrounding prisons in the current |
| 0:22.6 | pandemic. |
| 0:23.6 | And my announcement for this week is that we just launched while at home.org, which is |
| 0:28.4 | a central hub for anybody who's been impacted by COVID-19. |
| 0:31.7 | So it is for medical professionals, teachers, parents, people looking for jobs, people looking |
| 0:37.6 | for healthcare. |
| 0:38.6 | A lot of information on the site, please visit while at home.org today, set of resource |
| 0:45.4 | repeat board. |
| 0:46.4 | It also includes a lot of the things that are suddenly free, a lot of the platforms that |
| 0:50.2 | are free, fitness programs that are free because of what's going on right now. |
| 0:54.6 | We also are looking for volunteers. |
| 0:56.1 | So if you want to volunteer, shoot a note, either on the chat box on the site, you can sign |
| 1:00.8 | up for the mailing list on the site. |
| 1:03.0 | Shoot me a message at deray at deray.com. |
| 1:06.1 | Super easy, but while at home.com, let's go. |
| 1:11.7 | Hey, y'all, it's the news still inside. |
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