Crime is declining in the US, but the prison population is increasing. Co-hosts Rosie Tran and BJ Mendelson agree the for-profit prison system is out of control. In this episode, they critique our current prison system and offer solutions to fix it.

Resources for Saving the World

📚 "Inventing Human Rights: A History" by Lynn Hunt.

📚 "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander.

📑 "Facebook Fined $5B? Big Deal ... Last Quarter's Revenue Was 3X More" article in Forbes by John Koetsier.

📻 JoAnn Buttaro - Public Speaker/Women's Advocate/Date Rape Survivor episode 38 of Rosie Tran's other podcast Out of the Box.

📑 "Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein: what you need to know," an article in the Guardian by Lucy Osborne.

📑 "The Sackler family withdrew more than $10 billion from Purdue Pharma during the country's opioid crisis," an article for CNN by Madeline Holcombe and Rob Frehse.

⭐ Out of The Box, Rosie's other podcast

⭐ "Dirty Change," a sex-education podcast by Rosie and co-host Tommy Pistol.

⭐ BJ Mendelson Newsletter, Check out BJ's newsletter

⭐ Support BJ Mendelson on Patreon.

⭐ Follow Rosie on Twitter and Instagram.

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