The Progressive Prosecutor Movement with Chesa Boudin

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The United States is one of the most incarcerated nations in the world. But why does the U.S. have so many people in prison and what are the biggest drivers of mass incarceration? One way to understand the answer to this question is to look at how prosecution is done in America. Reimagining criminal justice procedures has been the focus of a growing progressive prosecutor movement. Chesa Boudin, a proponent of reforming prosecutorial procedures, is the former district attorney of San Francisco, a position that he held until his recall in 2022. His biological parents spent a combined 62 years in prison starting when he was a baby. He’s now the founding executive director of Berkeley’s Criminal Law and Justice Center. Boudin joins WITHpod to discuss his familial experience with incarceration, the backlash he received while in office, building out alternative infrastructures, rethinking decarceration and more.

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0:00.0	Hey with pod listeners before we get in today's episode reminder that we are taking this
0:11.3	podcast with pod on the road again and I'm going to be in Chicago at the House of Blues
0:15.8	on Monday, October 9th and in Philadelphia at the Fillmore Theater, Monday, October 16th.
0:20.9	Now I'm telling you this at the top of this because we still have just a few limited
0:25.3	number of tickets available for that Chicago event.
0:28.4	It'll be with award winning often in acclaimed professor and money Perry, rapper and actor
0:32.4	Vic Mensa, MSNBC contributor, Tremaine Lee.
0:34.5	We're going to be talking all about the sort of global impact of hip hop on its 50th anniversary
0:39.4	where it came from, where it's going.
0:41.4	It's going to be an unbelievable conversation.
0:44.0	We also still have tickets for a Philadelphia event and that's going to be an amazing one
0:47.2	too.
0:48.2	A double header.
0:49.2	We've got New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein.
0:50.7	We'll talk about her latest book which is fascinating and bizarre.
0:53.5	It's called Doppelganger.
0:54.9	We'll talk about the ways that disinformation are warping the world around us and second
1:00.0	part of the double header thrilled to be joined by my colleague and dear friend MSNBC
1:03.7	Anchor Joy Reid.
1:04.7	We're going to talk about the backlash to history and the peril of this particular political
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