Unsafe Studio Podcast: Incarceration Followup w. Johnny Mitchell and Mike Schmidt

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Comedian + former convict Johnny Mitchell and comedian + former defense attorney Mike Schmidt join Toby and Lou to talk prison and criminal justice. Chapters and sources below - and don't forget to subscribe! 1:22 What’s prison like and does it work? 5:25 Religion in Prison 8:12 Are fewer laws the answer? Is the Prison industry driving incarceration? 10:14 Breakdown of drug offenders in federal and state prison. 11:59 Is the damage incarceration and for-profit policing are doing to society greater than crime itself? 15:54 What’s the difference between jail and prison? 16:30 The bail system 20:10 Violent vs. Nonviolent crimes in prison, and why America has higher incarceration rates than other countries. 21:55 Caning, and how to make punishment swift and certain. 25:00 What’s the practical alternative to prison? 32:00 Does keeping criminals off the streets reduce crime? 33:20 Taking away the parole system 35:29 Prison workers 42:32 Programs that reduce sentence length 50:00 Treating teens who are sexting as sex offenders. 52:50 English common law as the basis of our law. 57:05 Withholding evidence and false accusations. 1:01:10 The role of race in criminal justice Sources on incarceration stats: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2016.html https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/releasing-drug-offenders-wont-end-mass-incarceration/ https://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/pdf/whos_in_prison_for_marij.pdf Read Toby Muresianu's thoughts on the topic here: https://medium.com/@tobymuresianu/afterthoughts-on-unsafe-space-incarceration-fb982beafb6d In this in-studio episode of the Unsafe Space Podcast, comedians Johnny Mitchell and Mike Schmidt join Unsafe Space hosts Toby Muresianu and Lou Perez of We the Internet TV to talk about incarceration, following up on our previous live show on the topic with Heather Mac Donald and Thaddeus Russell.