{"id":49107,"date":"2016-03-09T09:15:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=49107"},"modified":"2016-03-08T13:27:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:27:47","slug":"incarceration-nations-a-journey-to-justice-in-prisons-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2016\/03\/09\/incarceration-nations-a-journey-to-justice-in-prisons-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601507.us.archive.org\/5\/items\/BazDreisinger20160301\/Baz_Dreisinger_2016_03_01.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601505.us.archive.org\/33\/items\/uprising_2016_03_09\/uprising_2016_03_09.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Baz Dreisinger<\/strong>, Associate Professor in the English Department at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, founder and Academic Director of the Prison-to-College Pipeline program.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The United States has many distinctions globally. One of its most shameful is that it imprisons the greatest number of people compared to any other country. With only 5% of the world&#8217;s population, the US is responsible for imprisoning 25% of all incarcerated people worldwide. Sadly, mass incarceration has been contagious. It was a model invented in the US, and exported to the rest of the world. <\/p>\n<p>My guest Baz Driesinger, who is intimately familiar with the US prison system, spent 2 years traveling to prisons in 9 other countries to learn just how incarceration has manifested itself in other lands. But she also explored, more importantly, how other nations are finding alternatives to mass incarceration. <\/p>\n<p>Follow Dreisinger&#8217;s Twitter <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bazdreisinger?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">@bazdreisinger<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Baz Dreisinger, Associate Professor in the English Department at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, founder and Academic Director of the Prison-to-College Pipeline program. The United States has many distinctions globally. One of its most shameful is that it imprisons the greatest number of people compared to any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program","category-featured-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49136,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49107\/revisions\/49136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}