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Closing Rikers: Holding Space for History and Vision
There is a mass incarceration crisis underway in the United States that has been persisting for decades. America is home to roughly the same number people with criminal records as it is to four-year college graduates. While New York City holds criminal legal system reform up as a progressive reform...
Innocent yet Forced into Incarceration
According to the National Registry of Exonerations, between 1989 when the first DNA exoneration took place and 2017, there have been 2,161 documented exonerations in the United States. There were 139 exonerations in 2017 alone and of those, at least 96 people were exonerated as a group. How are...
The Ticking Clock to Criminalization
Rob DeLeon, Associate Vice President of Programs at The Fortune Society interviews Ann-Marie Louison, Chief Strategic Initiatives Officer at the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES); and Nancy Ginsburg, Director of Adolescent Intervention and Diversion Project at The...
The Color of Money
Andre Ward, Associate Vice President of Education and Employment Services at The Fortune Society welcomes Stacy Woodruff, Managing Director at Workforce Professionals Training Institute to discuss the growing racial wealth gap in America at a time when the minimum wage is increasing to $15 in New...
Community Engagement: Why Building Communities is Vital to Criminal Justice Reform
Host Khalil A. Cumberbatch interviews William Evans, founder and President of Neighborhood Benches a non-profit organization designed to help young adults and leaders achieve positive changes in communities where capacity building, community service and restorative justice practices are needed....
State-Level Reforms: Where We Need to Focus
BSOTB welcomes Katie Schaffer, NY statewide organizer at JustLeadershipUSA, who discusses the recent unprecedented increased attention by many states to implement state-level reforms as they relate to the criminal justice system. Advocates, both directly impacted and not, from across the country are...
Stones Of Hope: The Fight For Our Leaders Of Tomorrow
Nearly 53,000 youth are held in facilities away from home as a result of juvenile or criminal justice involvement. Nearly 1 in 10 is held in an adult jail or prison. To discuss these issues – and others -- BSOTB welcomes Jim Saint Germain, founder and chair of Preparing Leaders of Tomorrow (PLOT), a...
Correctional Profiteering: The Money Trail of Mass Incarceration
The commercialization of our correctional institutions has created a system of exploitation and injustice. “Both Sides Of The Bars” host Khalil Cumberbatch and Bianca Tylek, who directs the Corrections Accountability Project at the Urban Justice Center, discuss the issue and potential solutions.
Incarceration Nations: An International Look At Incarceration
A global look at mass incarceration, solitary confinement, the war on drugs, and prison privatization featuring host Khalil Cumberbatch and Baz Dreisinger, Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World.