Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
With the implementation of such “get tough” approaches to crime as three strikes legislation and mandatory sentencing for drug users, more than a million inmates have been added to U-S prisons since nineteen-seventy. Kojo speaks with proponents of prison reform about what they see as the most troubling trends in current incarceration practices.
Guests
- Christian Parenti Journalist, The Nation; and visiting fellow at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics
- Marc Mauer Executive Director of the Sentencing Project, and editor of "Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment" (New Press)
- Rich Roberts Director of Special Operations and public information officer, International Union of Police Associations
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