KCKS NAACP Working To Keep Young People Out of Prison; and Prison Imperialism Program – Exporting The US Prison Industrial Complex

KCKS NAACP Working To Keep Young People Out of Prison The Kansas City, Kansas Chapter of the NAACP has been working on the problem of young people being funneled into prison instead of the workforce for years. They are partnering with the Unified Government and the business community to find pathways to success for young people in their community. Host Craig Lubow talks with Richard Mabion, President of the KCKS chapter of the NAACP about their efforts to break the school to prison pipeline. Prison Imperialism Program The United States is spreading its model of mass incarceration around the world. The US government has prison management programs in at least 33 different countries, mainly to majority non-white and “developing” nations. These classified, clandestine programs involve the construction of new prisons, prison guard training, and data management. Host Margo Patterson talks with Nasim Chatha of the Alliance for Global Justice about how the USA is to exporting our incarceration policies and prison industrial complex across the globe.