SIO163: Live at QED with Emma McClure on Prison Reform
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
For those who weren't able to make it to the incredible, bar-setting skeptic conference that is QED in Manchester, here is the audio from my first ever live SIO I did there! Joining me was Emma McClure, a solicitor who, among many other things, has represented very serious criminals in parole hearings. We talk about what prison should be for, what it actually is for, and lots of ways the justice system is really not doing the job it should be.
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| 0:00.0 | So there's five more minutes that's 300 seconds. |
| 0:03.4 | So I want a loud countdown. |
| 0:04.6 | Three hundred to nine a everybody together. |
| 0:07.2 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. So, Hello and welcome to what unless I'm having a serious memory lapse I believe is the first ever |
| 0:42.3 | live serious inquiries only recording. |
| 0:45.0 | Oh, thank God I was totally ready to do a Jeb Bush, please clap. |
| 0:56.0 | I really was. |
| 0:58.0 | And then I have to explain that. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, no, you guys follow probably the American policy. |
| 1:02.0 | No, thank you so much for coming and I'm sorry |
| 1:04.0 | that you got turned away at the other two events but no I'm glad you're here. No it's |
| 1:09.7 | great it looks like a full house and we have at least when when I post this there's at least 10 to 12 people listening online |
| 1:15.9 | So thank you all. I'm really excited to be here. I'm really excited to do this episode. I have of course Emma McClure who you all will be more familiar with than you are with me I'm sure she was here last year right? |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah last year and I'm very excited to be talking to you we're going to talk about well it's hard to put it in, we still can't figure |
| 1:34.4 | out how to put this in a concise like, I don't, fortune cookie like phrase, prison and what we're trying to do and |
| 1:40.6 | what it should be for and what it is and all that good stuff. |
| 1:43.6 | But first, Emma McClure, please introduce yourself, especially to the people |
| 1:48.4 | listening at home who might not be familiar from QED last year and tell us what you do and a little bit of your backstory. |
| 1:55.0 | Okay, so I'm Emma McClaw. |
| 1:57.0 | I am, when I'm feeling pretentious, I describe myself as a human rights lawyer. |
| 2:01.0 | More specifically, I represent people who are detained either in prison or in |
| 2:07.4 | hospital at proceedings where they are arguing that they shouldn't be detained |
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