Put Your Plan Together
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Pod Save the People
4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Sam, Clint and Brittany are back for the news. DeRay sits down to talk with program director Amy Roza, and students Donte Small, Ramieka Robinson-Peoples and Sekwan Merritt about their experiences in the Goucher College Prison Education Program (GPEP), which reverses the school-to-prison pipeline by providing college education to incarcerated adults.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Durey and welcome to Potsy the People. |
| 0:05.3 | This is our first episode back that includes Brittany Clinton Sam again for the new year. |
| 0:11.4 | Excited to have them back. |
| 0:12.4 | And we also have the Goucher Prison Education Program here on the pod to talk to us about |
| 0:18.0 | their work, which is pretty dope. |
| 0:20.0 | This question of cost, it costs us about in Maryland, a conservative estimate about $40,000 |
| 0:25.8 | a year to incarcerate someone per year. |
| 0:28.2 | GDP is costing us less than $6,000 per person per year. |
| 0:32.7 | Before we get started into the news and the interviews, the only word that I have for |
| 0:36.2 | you as we begin 2018 is to put your plan together. |
| 0:40.0 | The LET 2018 be the year that you have intention behind the things that you do, and that only |
| 0:45.3 | comes when you start to put your plan together. |
| 0:48.1 | When you decide how you want to be involved in elections, how you want to take action |
| 0:52.3 | on the issues that you care about, how you want to support the people in your lives, |
| 0:55.5 | and how you want people to support and love you in your life. |
| 0:58.7 | So put your plan together. |
| 0:59.7 | Don't just wait for things to come to you. |
| 1:02.5 | Don't just hope that you are lucky. |
| 1:05.6 | Put your plan together. |
| 1:06.8 | So when I think about my plan, I'm planning to write more. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm being more thoughtful about where I speak, about the activities I'm a part of, about |
| 1:14.3 | how I want to show up around mass incarceration and closing the racial wealth gap, and how I |
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