For our second episode of the series, @imaan.s.khan & I take on some of the most controversial, yet longstanding elements of our society - prisons and policing. In the past 40 years there has been a 500% increase in the populations of people in prisons and jails in the United States. But what guides this growth? We explore the role of the booming private prison industry & its built-in profit motive, the school-to-prison pipeline, as well as the hundreds of thousands of dollars it spends in political lobbying every year.

Going even further, we get to the root question of why and how we as a society decided that prisons are the cornerstone of our justice systems in the first place. Why are they even needed? We talk the social contract, the history of torture in eighteenth century Europe, ‘Othering’ and national identity making, colonialism, SARS in Nigeria, and how the law enables all of this to happen.

As always, the episodes drop when I drop em, full length on here & snippets on IGTV. Comment below or DM suggestions/requests for topics, guests, and music features!

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Editing by nuttyluc

Graphic by @amaanim_

Music - Do for Love instrumental (2pac)

Peace x