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Why Detained Migrants are Sent to Louisiana w/ Lydia Pelot-Hobbs


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We take another look at some stories we’ve been following for the past few weeks, from new angles and with new insights.

First, Cayden is joined by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky and co-editor of The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration. As a geographer of prisons and mass incarceration, her work specifically looks at the Gulf South and Louisiana. They discuss how and why the state uses its infrastructure of mass incarceration – and how abolitionist movements have fought back.

Then, Jenn Frye of the Carolina Federation (@carolinafederation) joins to talk about the organized resistance to Republican attempts to overturn the results of last fall’s state supreme court election, which is caught up in layers of legal recourse (no more valid than Trump's desperate attempts to reverse the 2020 election results) as Republicans attempt to throw out over 65,000 votes.

Resources and References from this episode
  • Oakdale Prison Riot (1987)
  • Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition by Silky Shah
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