Prisons

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Flightless Bird, Documentary, Society & Culture, David Farrier

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless bird, David looks at the American prison system, attempting to understand why the US has the largest prison population in the world - with around 1.9 million people incarcerated here. He interviews Bianca Tylek of national advocacy group “Worth Rises” about problems in the prison system, and meets Robert Craig, associate director at Abolish Private Prisons. He then travels to San Diego to meet Alana McMains, an attorney who mainly focuses on federal criminal defense. Farrier also talks to Jared Klickstein about his book “Crooked Smile”, as well as Rob’s dad! LIVE SHOWS: -Portland on April 13: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/80185968/flightless-bird-with-david-farrier-portland-revolution-hall -San Fransisco on April 18: https://www.ticketmaster.com/flightless-bird-live-with-david-farrier-san-francisco-california-04-18-2025/event/1C0062589BAC1D9F Links: Worth Rises: https://worthrises.org/ Abolish Private Prisons: https://www.abolishprivateprisons.org/ Jared Klickstein and his book: https://www.jaredklickstein.com/ Feedback and suggestions: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Hey, Reisabel, you're calling me. This is a real shock.
0:12.7	Well, I'm calling you back.
0:15.0	Oh, the truth comes out.
0:17.9	What's up?
0:19.1	I'm calling you for the podcast. Is it okay?
0:23.3	Yes.
0:24.8	But just quickly, you texted before saying you'd eaten too much?
0:28.5	I did eat too much. Now I feel sleepy.
0:31.4	What did you eat?
0:32.2	Just a hodgepudge of different things.
0:35.4	I actually, I ordered a Korean bowl type thing, and it wasn't very good, so then I didn't
0:40.5	eat much of it, and I snacked on some other things.
0:43.1	Don't put this in the podcast.
0:46.6	Okay, so this week's topic is a very broad one.
0:50.7	It's about prisons in America.
0:52.7	And I just wonder, if I say prisons in America to you,
0:56.1	what is the very first thing that comes to mind? Oh, specifically in America. I guess what comes
1:04.1	to mind is what is different to here in Al-Tiro, which is like the death sentence and the different ways in which the prison
1:13.1	system in America operates.
1:16.0	Is there a bit of pop culture that you were raised with in New Zealand that made you think
1:21.1	of prisons?
1:23.3	Well, you know, because we all have to study Shawshank Redemption.
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