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Comedian + former convict Johnny Mitchell and comedian + former defense attorney Mike Schmidt join Toby and Lou to talk prison and criminal justice. See video on YouTube: http://bit.ly/UnsafeStudioIncarceration Topics: 1:54 What’s prison like and does it work? 6:00 Religion in Prison 8:47 Are fewer laws the answer? Is the Prison industry driving incarceration? 10:49 Breakdown of drug offenders in federal and state prison. 12:34 Is the damage incarceration and for-profit policing are doing to society greater than crime itself? 16:29 What’s the difference between jail and prison? 17:24 The bail system 20:45 Violent vs. Nonviolent crimes in prison, and why America has higher incarceration rates than other countries. 22:30 Caning, and how to make punishment swift and certain. 25:35 What’s the practical alternative to prison? 32:35 Does keeping criminals off the streets reduce crime? 33:55 Taking away the parole system 36:04 Prison workers 42:67 Programs that reduce sentence length 50:35 Treating teens who are sexting as sex offenders. 53:25 English common law as the basis of our law. 57:40 Withholding evidence and false accusations. 1:01:45 The role of race in criminal justice Sources: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2016.html https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/releasing-drug-offenders-wont-end-mass-incarceration/ https://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/pdf/whos_in_prison_for_marij.pdf Read co-host Toby Muresianu's thoughts on the topic: https://medium.com/@tobymuresianu/afterthoughts-on-unsafe-space-incarceration-fb982beafb6d