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UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

What Would a Future Without Prisons Look Like?

UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

The Meteor, Collective Media

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Calls for criminal-justice reform have built over the last year—and this week, with jail uprisings in St. Louis, the focus is on prison abolition. That’s personal for both host Brittany Packnett Cunningham and her guest, organizer Kayla Reed, who break down what’s happening in their mutual hometown, and take on common myths about abolition. It’s a revealing discussion—and required listening for anyone trying to understand prison issues now. Plus, Brittany brings you the latest Untrending news. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Lauren Sherman, the host of fashion people. I love fashion, obviously. But shopping for fashion online is kind of annoying.

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y st or download the list app on the app store today. Hey, it's Brittany. So a lot happened this past week but before I get into it let me

0:59.9

take you back for a little history lesson. On December 25, 1868, President Andrew

1:08.2

Johnson granted every single person who had fought for the Confederacy, quote,

1:13.6

full pardons and amnesty.

1:16.0

This was, of course, for the offense of committing treason

1:19.6

against the United States.

1:21.3

Full pardons, with all the privileges and immunities a seditionist

1:26.1

could ever want. Now among those pardoned was one Jefferson Finis Davis, the former president of the Confederate States of America.

1:36.8

He never stood trial for his treason and therefore could never be convicted of ripping a fragile country into for the sake of

1:46.9

protecting white supremacy.

1:48.8

In fact, Davis's supporters said it would be best to avoid a salacious trial because they wanted to give

1:57.0

the country, and I quote, time to heal.

2:02.0

Sound familiar? Well, y'all know that living and loving harmony thing it

2:06.8

never actually happened. Instead the system of enslavement just continued.

2:11.8

It evolved into sharecropping in mass incarceration.

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