Patt Morrison for Tuesday, May 25, 2010

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:39

OPEN

 

 

1:41 – 1:58:30

America: Land of the Incarcerated

Question: What country has the highest percentage of its people imprisoned? Answer: The United States of America. For those paying attention, the answer shouldn’t be surprising. A staggering 1 out of every 100 adults, about 2.4 million people are behind bars. But if America has turned incarceration into an art form, than the state of Texas is Picasso. In Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison System, Robert Perkinson covers 150 years of American history told through the experience of the country’s most locked-down state, Texas. With racially mixed demographics mixed with Texas’ own unique history, Texas was the epicenter of the prison revolution. They are credited with the evolutions of the assembly-line executions, isolation based supermaxes, private prisons, executing the disables, to sentencing juveniles as adults. Patt talks to Robert Perkinson about how Texas’ profit-driven plantation-based penal system became the template for the nation.        

 

Guest:

Robert Perkinson, author of “Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire,”

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2:06 – 2:58:30

From the Crawford Family Forum:  California’s minority-majority voters in the 2010 elections

2010 will be a huge year in California politics—a U.S. Senate seat and the Governor’s office are both up for grabs as the state grapples with a slumping economy, record budget deficits, groundbreaking environmental regulations and constant demographic changes. Minority voters, heretofore almost seen as a special interest group that needed to be courted by major candidates, will soon constitute an actual majority of voters in California with major weight to throw around in an election year. What are the priorities, hopes and aspirations of California’s Asian, Latino, black and other ethnic minority voters?

 

Guests:
Michael Alvarez, Professor of Political Science at Cal Tech and author of “New Faces, New Voices: The Hispanic Electorate in America”

IN STUDIO

 

Efrain Escobedo, Executive Liaison Officer for the L.A. County Registrar Recorder

IN STUDIO

 

Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Executive Director of the Community Coalition

IN STUDIO

 

Stewart Kwoh, Executive Director and President of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California

IN STUDIO

 

 

Jonathan Serviss

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