Prisons of Profit

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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As America's prison population surged in the '80s and '90s, private prisons were billed as the solution. They were supposed to bring innovations to incarceration and save tax dollars. But as criminal justice expert Lauren-Brooke Eisen tells us, private prisons are no more cost-effective, and the corporations behind them operate in secrecy. Eisen's book is Inside Private Prisons. In the Spiel, Mike skewers the Republican tax plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains a bit of explicit material,
0:04.8	but much, much more that is not explicit, just as a percentage.
0:13.2	It's Monday, November 13th, 2017, from Slated to the Gist.
0:16.9	I'm Mike Pesca, and finally, the enemy has an appropriately nefarious name.
0:22.6	All along we've called the Russian Hacking Scandal.
0:25.2	The Russian Hacking Scandal, I think it was hampered by this fact a little bit.
0:28.8	I don't like throwing gate onto the end of everything to make it a scandal.
0:33.3	The suffix gate is overused, except for that time when they found out that the founder of Microsoft
0:38.9	was using the recordings of Lionel Hampton in an unauthorized manner.
0:42.8	It was Gates Gates Gate.
0:44.8	Get it Lionel Hampton's nickname was Gates, because it was said that the famous jazz vibraphonist
0:50.3	was swinging like a gate.
0:51.5	It could have gone with swings.
0:52.9	No, went with gates.
0:54.0	That's fine.
0:54.6	Back to the Russian Hacking Scandal.
0:56.5	We found out through some great reporting in the New York Times and elsewhere that there is
1:00.0	a group called The Shadow Brokers.
1:03.6	And The Shadow Brokers are an advancement, I think, of what we used to call this Hacking
1:10.0	Collective.
1:10.8	They were known as Kozy Bear, or sometimes Fancy Bear.
1:14.8	Now, this means that the theme song, if you had to score this, if you made a movie of the
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