Decarceration Nation (with Josh And Joel)

Josh interviews Vincent Schiraldi noted criminal justice researcher, an expert in juvenile justice and in parole and probation. You can find full show notes on our website DecarcerationNation.com

Josh interviews David Feige, Director of the documentary feature "Untouchable." Complete show notes are available at our site DecarcerationNation.com

Josh Interviews Joe Luppino-Esposito of the Due Process Institute about Mens Rea Reform Full show notes are available from our website DecarcerationNation.com

Josh interviews Professor Reuben Miller from the University of Chicago about his work about Carceral Citizenship Full show notes are available at DecarcerationNation.com

Josh interviews Professor James Forman Jr. Mr. Forman won the 2018 Pulitzer prize for general non-fiction for his book "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America" More detailed show notes are available at DecarcerationNation.com

Josh interviews Kevin Ring (Families Against Mandatory Minimums) and Ames Grawet (Brennan Center) about First Step Act Implementation You can find complete show notes at DecarcerationNation.com

Josh interviews Tonya Riley of Mother Jones, Alex Friedmann of Prison Legal News, and Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative You can find full episode notes at DecarcerationNation.com

Josh discusses the criminal justice implications of the midterm elections with Janos Marton of ACLU Smart Justice You can find detailed show notes at DecarcerationNation.com

Josh interviews Sukyi McMahon about her work at the Square One Project during episode 38 of the Decarceration Nation Podcast You can find the full show notes on our website DecarcerationNation.com

Josh interviews Mark Holden, Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Koch Industries about his work on criminal justice reform. To read the show notes, go to DecarcerationNation.com

Josh interviews Sheila Vakharia about harm reduction and US drug and addiction policies. The full show notes can be found at DecarcerationNation.com

Josh interviews Brandon L. Garrett about his new book "End Of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice. You can find the complete show notes at DecarcerationNation.com

Josh discusses his criminal justice reform agenda. The full show notes are available at our website http://decarcerationnation.com/

Josh interviews Guy Hamilton-Smith about Civil Commitment. You can find all of the show notes at DecarcerationNation.com

Josh interviews James Kilgore about our growing reliance on systems of E-Carceration. To see the complete show notes, visit DecarcerationNation.com

Josh interviews Julian Adler co-author of the book Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration The full show notes are available at DecarcerationNation.com

Josh interviews Beverly Parenti co-creator of The Last Mile First, apologies, we faced some unique technical difficulties that we have never faced before. Andy was able to deal with many of the problems, but unfortunately, there is a portion of the interview that still has some feedback and a portion of the interview that has some drift so that the tracks were not lined up correctly. Thank you for your patience and I hope you will still enjoy the interview. This week I published my 69th recap of the television show Orange Is the New Black. I should probably mention that Kathy Morse is also joining in to help out with my Season 6 recaps. In case you were curious, Jeff Sessions would actually be made weaker by the passage of the First Step Act (which is probably why the DOJ has come out in opposition to the bill). I did also write this response to Boots Riley's critique of Spike Lee's movie BlackkKlansman. Beverly Parenti's bio is incredibly impressive. I read many articles and watched many videos about The La

Josh interviews Jared "Jay" Ware about prison abolitionism. Kathy and I finished our most recent Orange Is the New Black recap (Season 6 Episode 3). Jared "Jay" Ware is a prison abolitionist, freelance writer, co-host of the podcast Millennials Are Killing Capitalism and producer of the Beyond Prisons podcast. His work has been published with Shadowproof.com, The New Inquiry, In These Times, SF Bay View, Worker's World, Off Tha Record, and Hampton Institute. Students for a Democratic Society had a storied and important history in American political activism. Hopefully, most people remember the police and state violence that resulted in the deaths of Mike Brown, Tamie Rice, Eric Garner, and Sandra Brown as well as the situation in Ferguson Missouri. We have talked about Michelle Alexanders book "The New Jim Crow" many times before on this podcast. Angela Y Davis book "Are Prisons Obsolete" is a relatively quick read but very fundamental to understanding prison abolition

Josh discusses the recent compromise promising a combination of the First Step Act with the best parts of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. You can read our most recent Orange Is the New Black Recap or look back through all of the recaps. Kathy Morse was one of the inmates featured in the Bill Moyers documentary "Rikers: Am American Jail." Our original First Step Act episode of this podcast was Episode 18 and featured Ames Grawert of the Brennan Center, Jessica Jackson Sloan of Cut 50, and Jason Pye of FreedomWorks. Janie and Buzz founded the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. The President and House and Senate Leadership moved recently to combine the First Step Act and Chuck Grassley's Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. In case you forgot, Prisons and Jails, as currently constructed don't make us safer. You can read the different sections of the First Step Act to see why Jeff Sessions is not given unprecedented or unaccountable power. Recently, the Brennan Cen

Josh talks with Bianca Tylek and Michael Crowley about prison privatization and private prisons I forgot to mention that Decarceration Nation was mentioned in the online publication Bustle this week. Thanks to Taylor Maples for including us on the list of "7 Criminal Justice Podcasts to Listen to." If you are a long-time fan of Orange Is the New Black, the guide to all of my recaps covers every season to date. If you are just starting to watch Orange Is the New Black, the first recap covers the first episode of Season 6 from the perspective of formerly incarcerated folks. Bianca Tylek is the Director of the Corrections Accountability Project. Michael Crowley worked at the Office of Management budget under both the Bush and Obama Administrations, he currently works at the Brennan Center for Justice. He was written recent articles on funding priorities for criminal justice reform and about model state movements towards criminal justice reform. I asked the most renowned expert in prison abolition that