It Could Happen Here - Private Prisons, Finance Ghouls and The Bezzle, with Cory Doctorow

Private Prisons, Finance Ghouls and The Bezzle, with Cory Doctorow

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03/25/24 • 40 min

It Could Happen Here

Robert sits down with author and activist Cory Doctorow to discuss his new book, the Bezzle, and how finance monsters have turned American prisons into an even crueler institution.

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Robert sits down with author and activist Cory Doctorow to discuss his new book, the Bezzle, and how finance monsters have turned American prisons into an even crueler institution.

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It Could Happen Here - Private Prisons, Finance Ghouls and The Bezzle, with Cory Doctorow

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Welcome everybody to it could happen here, a podcast about it happening here. The slow crumbling of the institutions that make up our society, and that includes not just the good stuff that's become the bad stuff, like for example, Google Search, but it includes the stuff that's always been bad and has gotten worse, like life inside the prison industrial complex, which is partly