Hosted by Abolish Private Prisons executive director John Dacey, associate director Robert Craig, and former NFL player and social justice advocate Tank Johnson.
Prison $ells explores how private prisons view human beings as human capital. With an economics theme woven into each episode, topics and statistics are discussed to expose the ROI involved in keeping prisoners locked away. Listeners will gain insight into how financial gain influences the decisions of those who own and manage private prisons and find the inspiration to act to abolish them.
Scaling Your Empire with Dr. Suzanne Shanahan from the Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns
Join the Prison Sells crew as they welcome Dr. Suzanne Shanahan from the Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns. The group discusses some important questions surrounding human dignity, the refugee experience, serendipity and life choices.
Suzanne Shanahan is the Leo and Arlene Hawk Executive Director and professor of the practice at the Center for Social Concerns. She currently leads Virtues & Vocations, a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character and purpose in pre-professional and professional education. For 14 years before joining the center, Suzanne led the Kenan Institute for Ethics and more recently DukeEngage, Duke University’s signature civic engagement program. At Duke she founded the Kenan Refugee Project, a six-country, community-engaged research project on forced migration. Her current research focuses on forced migration and moral responsibility, which she will now continue at the center. Other current work explores the drivers of domestic child sex trafficking and dynamics of racial collective action in the United States and Europe. At Duke Suzanne also received the Robert B. Cox Distinguished Teaching Award and the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award. She received her PhD in sociology from Stanford University.
23 Aug 2022
The ESG Report with Momma Kate Boccia of the National Incarceration Association
Kate Boccia joins the Prison Sells Podcast to tell deeply moving story of how her son's experience in prison motivated her to become an advocate for those whose voices were not being heard. Using her deeply compassionate paradigm and ability to build bridges, Kate founded the National Incarceration Association and has grown it into an extremely effective advocacy organization.
Join us as we talk about deeply rooted problem in the prison system, how privilege affects that industry, working with diverse groups of individuals, and a theory of change grounded in humanization and grit.
14 Aug 2022
Stocks Up, Freedoms Down with Pamela Winn, founder of RestoreHER US.America
Pamela Winn joins the Prison Sells crew to talk about the effects that the profit incentive can have on people who are locked up inside of private prisons. In particular, Pamela shares her story of being pregnant while inside a private prison facility, how private prisons shirk responsibility for those inside their walls, the devastating consequences for the people inside, and her advocacy work since being released.
Please join us for this powerful conversation!
30 Jul 2022
The Unbalanced Balance Sheet with D.Nash
D.Nash joins the Prison Sells team to talk about his inspirational journey to bring attention and solutions to gun violence, particularly in his home city of Chicago, Illinois.
23 Jul 2022
ROI: The Return on Incarceration
The Prison $ells team is joined by Shane Bauer, an incredibly important investigative journalist, to talk about what the insatiable need to squeeze profit from the people inside private prisons means for those inside the walls: both the staff members and the people convicted of crimes. Shane wrote about his experience inside a Louisiana private prison for Mother Jones, and he later turned it into an incredible book: American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment.
Shane's story is captivating and courageous.
16 Jul 2022
Mergers and Human Acquisitions with Rev. Dr. John H. Vaughn
Rev. Dr. John H. Vaughn serves as the Executive Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, which has long served as a hub and leader for civil rights movements in the United States. He works closely with the Church’s Senior Pastor and newest United States Senator, the Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock in managing the overall vision, ministries, and operations of this iconic, international congregation. Previously, Rev. Vaughn served for almost ten years as the Executive Vice President at Auburn Theological Seminary. Auburn is a national leadership development and research institute that equips leaders of faith and moral courage for multi-faith movements for justice.
9 Jul 2022
Shackles and Supply Chains with Brian Dawe
Brian Dawe was a correctional officer in Massachusetts for 16 years before creating and acting as the CEO for ACOIN (the American Correctional Officer Intelligence Network). ACOIN works to represent the interest of COs and specializes in seeking out best practices and intelligence sharing among the men and women who work inside correctional facilities.
Join the Prison $ells team and Brian as they discuss the effect of introducing the profit motive into prisons, particularly what it does to the staff who work there and the follow-on effects for the people incarcerated.
2 Jul 2022
Human Assets Under Management with Gaby Viera and Cynthia Garcia
Gaby Viera and Cynthia Garcia join the Prison $ells team to talk about how the profit motive has warped immigration policy. Gaby is the Advocacy Associate at Detention Watch Network (DWN), where she works toward abolition through federal advocacy work and coalition building. Cynthia is a community organizer fighting against deportation on the local level, empowering immigrant families, and disrupting the collaboration between ICE and local law enforcement. She now leads the Community Protection Campaigns work of United We Dream, the largest immigrant youth-led network in the country.
As always, please consider donating to Abolish Private Prisons (https://abolishprivateprisons.networkforgood.com/) to help us continue our fight to rid profit from the prison-industrial complex.
25 Jun 2022
Keeping the Org Chart in your Favor with professor dre cummings
dre cummings, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Charles Baum Distinguished Professor of Law at the William H. Bowen School of Law, joins Prison $ells to talk about the how private prisons have corrupted the criminal justice system and used financial power to further the carceral state.
dre writes extensively on issues regarding investor protection, racial and social justice, and sports and entertainment law, publishing in the Washington University Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Utah Law Review, Tulane Law Review, Howard Law Journal, Drexel Law Review, Marquette Sports Law Review, Iowa Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, Thurgood Marshall Law Review and Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice, amongst many others. cummings has published three books including “Corporate Justice” (with Todd Clark) in 2016, “Hip Hop and the Law” (with Pamela Bridgewater and Donald Tibbs) in 2015, and “Reversing Field: Examining Commercialization, Labor, Gender, and Race in 21st Century Sports Law” (with Anne Marie Lofaso) in 2010.
As always, please consider donating to Abolish Private Prisons (https://abolishprivateprisons.networkforgood.com/) to help us continue our fight to rid profit from the prison-industrial complex.
18 Jun 2022
The Evil Start-Up with Bianca Tylek
Bianca Tylek, founder of Worth Rises, joins Prison $ells to talk about the business models of private prisons. The group also discusses different ways that privatization has threaded itself into the prison-industrial complex.
Check out Bianca's work with Worth Rises (https://worthrises.org/). Also, this episode is being released just as Bianca's other effort with #EndTheException (https://endtheexception.com/) is doing phenomenal work around Juneteenth awareness (https://twitter.com/WorthRises/status/1537048125197664257).
As always, please consider donating to Abolish Private Prisons (https://abolishprivateprisons.networkforgood.com/) to help us continue our fight to rid profit from the prison-industrial complex.
22 Apr 2022
Prison $ells - Introduction
In this inaugural episode, Robert, John and former NFL player Tank Johnson expose the truth about for-profit incarceration and shed light on how deep their unethical practices run throughout the financial sectors of the country.
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