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Eddie Conway: Prisons Enable America’s Obscene Wealth

August 13, 2021 8 Comments

On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," prisoner-turned-journalist Eddie Conway talks about how the immorally cheap labor of those caught in the prison industrial complex is the shame of the U.S. economy.

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Chesa Boudin: Across Prison Walls, I Felt My Parents’ Love

March 15, 2021 5 Comments

For the San Francisco district attorney, his mother and father were radical not for their politics but for the extraordinary lengths they took to parent him while incarcerated.

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Gary Tyler’s Life Matters: Framed for Murder by Cops at 16, Exonerated 4 Decades Later

June 4, 2020 0 Comments

The play he directed in Louisiana, where he was incarcerated, became the subject of the documentary "Cast the First Stone."

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Mike Farrell: Putting an End to the Death Penalty

September 2, 2016 0 Comments

Robert Scheer sits down with the M*A*S*H actor and activist to discuss his involvement in the anti death penalty movement.

Eddie Conway: Prisons Enable America’s Obscene Wealth

Chesa Boudin: Across Prison Walls, I Felt My Parents’ Love

Gary Tyler’s Life Matters: Framed for Murder by Cops at 16, Exonerated 4 Decades Later

Mike Farrell: Putting an End to the Death Penalty

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