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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Jun 10, 2022
Today in Part Two of The Long Road Home, we look at the numerous hurdles faced by prisoners released into society, the toll on their families, the importance of educational programs in restoring self-esteem and setting goals and the difficult process of even being granted parole.
We begin by speaking with Russ Owen, who spent 32 years in prison, the day he was released from East Jersey State Prison, as well as his mother, Mae Owen, along with four other former prisoners, Boris Franklin, who spent 11 years in prison, Ron Pierce, who spent 30 years in prison, Robert Luma, whose nickname is Kabir and who spent 16 years in prison, and Thomas Dollard, who spent 30 years in prison.
All were my students in the college degree program offered to prisoners in the New Jersey State prison system by Rutgers University. Collectively, they spent 119 years in prison.
From the archives:
The Chris Hedges Report: The Long Road Home, Part 1
Chris Hedges: Race and America’s Long War
Chris Hedges: A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
Chris Hedges: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison, Part 2
Chris Hedges: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison, Part 1
Chris Hedges: Caged: Life From Inside and Outside the US Prison System
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