16. The Courage of Your Convictions, with Bob Lankin

The Pennsylvania Project

The Courage of Your Convictions

Ken’s guest is Bob Lankin, a mass incarceration expert, talking about the incredible number of Pennsylvanians in prison, the real cost to taxpayers, and alternative approaches to probation and bail that can dramatically reduce the size of Pennsylvania’s prison industrial complex.

What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week is another facet of the Quote-Unquote “Justice” System, namely, the Courts.

Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Margaret Susuni

Found in this episode:

What’s in the Mail Bag? 00:03:30-00:14:00

• The crushing weight of student debt
• Uncommon education with Common Core
• Tenth Amendment nullification of unconstitutional federal law
• More on state-sponsored marriage

A Conversation with Rob Lankin 00:16:10-00:46:00

• Only 47,000 Pennsylvanians in prison? No, it’s many, many more.
• Only $40,000 a year to keep them there? No, it’s much, much more.
• Bail as an unnecessary, regressive burden on the lower classes? Yep.
• Should government be your agent for revenge?

What Sticks in Ken’s Craw? The Courts 00:48:30-00:00:56:40

• Contempt of court and those men in dresses with their cruel, mumbo-jumbo legal process
• Do YOU understand the charges against you? Sure ya do. NOT!
• The judge is under no obligation to help you – but does help lawyers stack the jury
• Get judges out of the judging business!

More Information:

Guests:

Pennsylvania Constitution: https://www.paconstitution.org/
ACLU Smart Justice: https://www.aclupa.org
Decarcerate Pennsylvania: https://decarceratepa.info
Pennsylvania Prison Society: https://www.prisonsociety.org

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