Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Sussex State Prison in Virginia.
Across our region, stories about the criminal justice system in D.C. and Virginia have prompted conversation and change. In the Commonwealth, reporter Tim Eberly wrote a series of articles on offenders caught in the local “three-strikes law,” which eliminates the possibility of parole for certain crimes. And law professor James Forman, Jr. wrote a book about the role D.C.’s black leaders played in the escalation of “tough on crime” legislation after the Civil Rights Era that led to modern mass incarceration. For their efforts, Eberly was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting and Forman won the award in the general non-fiction category. Kojo catches up with both writers on their work, and the impact they’ve made locally.
Guests
- Tim Eberly Reporter, The Virginian Pilot; Finalist, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting; @TimEberly
- James Forman Jr. Author, "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America"; Professor of Law, Yale Law School; @jformanjr
'Secret Injustice' by Tim Eberly (Virginian Pilot)
Series | Secret Injustice
This series of stories from Virginian-Pilot investigative reporter Tim Eberly resulted in changes to Virginia's parole board system. Eberly was honored as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for the work.
"Locking Up Our Own" (James Forman, Jr.'s 2017 conversation with Kojo)
"Locking Up Our Own": How Local Black Leadership May Have Fueled Black Incarceration - The Kojo Nnamdi Show
In his new book, former D.C. public defender James Forman Jr. argues that in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement, the tough-on-crime policies of local black leaders fueled today's high rates of black incarceration.
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