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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...
PrEP (Pre-exposure Prophylaxis)
In this episode, Mrs. C. Virginia Fields has a conversation with Justin Toro, LMSW, Program Manager, Adolescent Program, Montefiore Medical Center
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.
Accomplices, not Allies: What the Criminal Legal System Reform Movement Needs
How can organizations outside of the criminal justice sphere work to reduce mass incarceration and promote a fairer justice system? Roy Waterman, Criminal Justice Manager at Jewish Council for Public Affairs, discusses the issue with host and Fortune's Associate Vice President of Policy Khalil...