Private Prisons with Shane Bauer
Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu
WarnerMedia Podcast Network
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My work partner said to me at one point, |
| 0:02.6 | I wish an investigative journalist would come and investigate this. |
| 0:05.6 | Like, yes. |
| 0:08.4 | We've so ignored at that point you're like me too. |
| 0:10.7 | Oh, wait a minute, hold on a second. |
| 0:14.8 | From First Look Media and Penetplis, |
| 0:17.2 | this is politically reactive. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm W. Kamal Bell. |
| 0:20.5 | And I'm Harry Kunderbolu. |
| 0:22.0 | The show where two comedians try to make sense of politics in America. |
| 0:25.6 | We'll explore why sometimes this democracy ain't so democratic. |
| 0:29.3 | On today's show, we're going to discuss the very American thing of private prisons. |
| 0:34.1 | We are. I thought we were having our who's the best ant-vive debate. |
| 0:38.0 | You know, Ms. Banks, since you had that baby, |
| 0:41.7 | it's something different about you. |
| 0:44.8 | Oh no, we're going to do that, but I need to do a lot more research before that happens. |
| 0:48.6 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:49.4 | Anyway, Harry, did you know that the US accounts for roughly 5% of the world's population, |
| 0:53.3 | but over 20% of the prisoner population? |
| 0:55.8 | The number of people in prison or parole or on probation exceeds |
| 0:59.2 | the populations of Los Angeles and Chicago combined. |
| 1:03.5 | I did not know that, but I can't say I'm surprised, given all the crimes and policy decisions |
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