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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Oct 14, 2021
On the show, part one of a two-part interview, journalist Hugh Hamilton discusses the saga of trauma and transformation in an American prison as chronicled in journalist Chris Hedges’ new book Our Class.
The United States imprisons more of its people than any other country in the world. According to the non-profit Prison Policy Initiative, the American prison industrial complex currently holds captive nearly 2.3 million people in more than 6,000 prisons, penitentiaries, jails, detention centers and correctional facilities across the country.
In his newest and positively riveting page turner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges takes us behind the forbidding bars of steel at East Jersey State Prison, into a world where prisoners are people. Together, as students in Hedges’ College-level prison class, they embark on a journey of artistic and personal discovery. Tasked with the challenge of writing a dramatic play of their own, these students deliver eloquent, original and often painful voice to the heartbreaking grief and suffering that they and their families have endured.
See also:
Chris Hedges: God “Caged” in Jersey
From the archives:
Chris Hedges: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison, Part 2
David Swanson and Carissa Byrne Hessick: Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal
Chris Hedges’ Commencement Address: Integrity Forged in Cages
Chris Hedges: Caged: Life From Inside and Outside the US Prison System
Chris Hedges: Halfway to Freedom
Chris Hedges: The Prison-Industrial Complex
Abby Martin: Tortured and Enslaved: Enter the World’s Biggest Prison
Chris Hedges: Prison State America: Corporations Use Inmates Like Slaves
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