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Concrete Cages and Cash: The U.S. Prison Industry
April 3, 2002
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In the last 20 years in the United States, the federal and state governments have not fully met the needs for education, health care and other services, while funneling huge amounts of tax dollars into incarceration. On this program, the National Radio Project's Prison Desk takes a look at the economics of U.S. prisons, and at how politicians and corporations are making choices that may severely impact the future.
Featuring:
Rose Braz, Critical Resistance; Keith Ernst, Institute for Southern Studies; Ruthie Gilmore, professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and with the Prison Moratorium Project; Mafruza Khan and Phil Mattera, Good Jobs First; Kamau Marcharia, Grassroots Leadership; Allegra Searle-LaBel, Prison Activist Resource Center.
For more information:
Critical Resistance
1212 Broadway #1400
Oakland, California 94612
510-444-0484
www.criticalresistance.org
Institute for Southern Studies
P.O. Box 531
Durham, North Carolina 27702-0531
919-419-8311
www.southernstudies.org
Prison Activist Resource Center
PO Box 339
Berkeley, California 94701
510-893-4648
www.prisonactivist.org/pmp
Good Jobs First
1311 L Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
202-737-4315
www.goodjobsfirst.org
Grassroots Leadership
P.O. Box 49
Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065