Moyers & Company: Incarceration Nation (Enhanced DVD)
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Moyers & Company: Incarceration Nation (Enhanced DVD) Prison overpopulation is a dire crisis in the United States, especially for the nation's African American inmates who continue to suffer from racial discrimination even behind bars. Legal scholar Michael Alexander discusses the challenges facing felons, from the moment of incarceration to trying to rebuild their lives after release.
Learn how mandatory sentencing procedures led to the current overcrowding crisis, making minorities serve lengthy sentences for lesser crimes and forcing judges to let more dangerous, often white criminals off. The racial divide affects the entire criminal justice system, and unfair practices continue to drive the wedge even deeper.
Alexander also presents alternative solutions to bring population numbers down while healing the wounds caused by discrimination. Viewers are introduced to former felons who have turned their lives around to help reduce crime and get others back on their feet. We also learn how private prisons have led to increased crime rates and what lawmakers are doing about it.
Moyers & Company: Incarceration Nation
Learn how mandatory sentencing procedures led to the current overcrowding crisis, making minorities serve lengthy sentences for lesser crimes and forcing judges to let more dangerous, often white criminals off. The racial divide affects the entire criminal justice system, and unfair practices continue to drive the wedge even deeper.
Alexander also presents alternative solutions to bring population numbers down while healing the wounds caused by discrimination. Viewers are introduced to former felons who have turned their lives around to help reduce crime and get others back on their feet. We also learn how private prisons have led to increased crime rates and what lawmakers are doing about it.
Moyers & Company: Incarceration Nation
- Enhanced DVD
- ISBN: 978-0-81609-057-0
- Run Time: 57 Minutes
- Copyright Date: 2013
- CC
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Today there are more African Americans in correctional control than were enslaved in 1850, ten years before the Civil War began. The types of correctional control they are under include jail, probation or parole. In this episode of Moyers and Company, Bill speaks with Michelle Alexander, a civil rights lawyer and scholar. She wrote The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness which became a bestseller and sparked a nationwide conversation about inequality and social justice in America. The book has been referred to as “the bible of a social movement.”
Also in this program, an excerpt from the documentary “Susan” by Tessa Blake and Emma Hewitt is shown. “Susan” is the story of Susan Burton, a former inmate from California who now runs five different houses to help women who are transitioning out of prison. Men and women of all racial groups including African Americans continue to struggle with mass incarceration, inclusion in society and rehabilitation after prison, and this program effectively details these pressing social issues which are often neglected. This program was first broadcast on December 20, 2013. (57 minutes)
Moyers & Company: Incarceration NationEnhanced DVD ISBN: 978-0-81609-057-0 Run Time: 57 Minutes Copyright Date: 2013 CC
Also in this program, an excerpt from the documentary “Susan” by Tessa Blake and Emma Hewitt is shown. “Susan” is the story of Susan Burton, a former inmate from California who now runs five different houses to help women who are transitioning out of prison. Men and women of all racial groups including African Americans continue to struggle with mass incarceration, inclusion in society and rehabilitation after prison, and this program effectively details these pressing social issues which are often neglected. This program was first broadcast on December 20, 2013. (57 minutes)
Moyers & Company: Incarceration Nation
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