Profiting Off Prisons with The Marshall Project’s Joe Neff

A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn

Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions

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🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Gaby tackles her latest research obsession -- private prisons. Who is making a profit from locking people up? The Marshall Project’s Joe Neff joins the show to talk about the mistreatment of prisoners in the time of COVID-19, who makes money off federal, state and private prisons, the ways prisoners are nickeled and dimed for everything (from soap to slippers to shoes), and the ways we can better rehabilitate people who have committed crimes. Read more about the criminal justice system at TheMarshalProject.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	You got problems that you either can turn with, whoah!
0:04.0	You don't know how you're supposed to earn it or what to do with it or how to keep it.
0:08.0	You're a freak with a dark shankful secret, but you're not the only one
0:13.0	who keeps your hidden financial fears with a brand of sun.
0:16.0	Now your healing has begun, it's bad with money with candy.
0:21.0	Done!
0:22.0	Hello, I'm Gabby Dunn and this is Bad With Funny.
0:25.0	Do you remember when we started this show in 2016?
0:32.0	And I was all, la la la la, how do you pay off your credit cards?
0:36.0	How do you make a bank account?
0:38.0	How do you do your student loans?
0:40.0	Whatever.
0:41.0	I was up to just innocently being like, what's a stock?
0:45.0	And now I've aged 1,000 years.
0:50.0	And we've gone full prison abolition.
0:53.0	Welcome.
0:54.0	Welcome to the episode, profiting from locking people up.
0:58.0	Why do I want to talk about this?
1:00.0	Well, because mass incarceration is in the news.
1:03.0	Basically, racial justice and criminal justice reform and policing have led to more talk about prisons.
1:12.0	And I'm going to go out on a crazy progressive limb here and say that I don't love the idea of people profiting off of putting people into jail.
1:22.0	And prison.
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