<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5205"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5209" dir="ltr"><strong id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5208"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5260" href="https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-racially-blind-night-in-the-life-of-the-pbs-newshour/">https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-racially-blind-night-in-the-life-of-the-pbs-newshour/</a></strong></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5220"><strong></strong> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5219"><strong id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5218">The New Jim Crow Minus Race (Paul Street)</strong></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5207">The Newshour was not through doing somersaults to avoid race and racism after the Angelos-Ifill interview last April 30th. The show’s next segment presented viewers with a curious display of “left-right unity” regarding the problems of over-incarceration and felony marking in the U.S. Representing “the right” was Mark Holden, a policy staffer from Koch Industries, owned by the arch-reactionary Koch brothers. Standing in for “the left” was Neera Tanden from the centrist Center for American Progress </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5254"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5350"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5255">(CAP), corporate Democrat Hillary Clinton’s favorite think-tank. Here was the Newshour’s set-up for the segment:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5217">“The figures are staggering…While the U.S. accounts for 5 percent of the world’s population, it houses more than 20 percent of its prisoners. In a significant shift, groups on opposite sides of the political spectrum, that often find themselves at odds – like Koch Industries from the right, and the Center for American progress from the left – are coming together with a common goal — to overhaul the country’s criminal justice system. Together they’ve launched the ‘Coalition for Public Safety.’”</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5235"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5225">The Coalition is dedicated to reducing the imprisonment of nonviolent offenders and to cutting barriers to employment and re-entry for people with prison histories and felony records. As Ms. Tanden explained, “we’re concerned with the challenges of rising inequality and how the criminal justice system is actually increasing poverty…when you have a young person who goes into the prison system, that affects…their ability to get a good-paying job the rest of their lives. So you’re not just burdening that person, you’re burdening their families. You’re burdening the communities.”</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5351"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5214">That’s no joke. Ms. Tanden is quite correct, as a significant body of research (including material I have produced) demonstrates. And it is arguably a good thing to see arch-Republicans and corporate Democrats agree on the need to lessen the burden placed on poor Americans by mass incarceration and criminal marking.</div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5206">Still, there was something very odd about this Newshour piece, something stranger even than calling the Center for American Progress “left”: a breathtakingly total deletion and avoidance of race in connection with the problems of mass imprisonment and the difficulties faced by “ex-offenders” in the U.S. It was an extraordinary omission. Race and (more to the point) racism are highly pertinent factors across the broad spectrum of socioeconomic disparity in the savagely unequal U.S. inequality, but nowhere are they more overwhelmingly and (one would think) inescapably relevant than in the nation’s “New Jim Crow” criminal justice system – from surveillance and arrest through jail, bail, trial, conviction, sentencing, probation, imprisonment, parole, felony marking, and execution both within prison walls and on the streets.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5234"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_5204">It might seem bizarre to see race and racism omitted from discussions of urban poverty and the New Jim Crow criminal justice system on the supposedly liberal “public” broadcasting network. In reality, the omissions are consistent both with the deep, privilege-friendly conservatism of “P”BS and with the post-racial mythology of reigning “neoliberal racism” in the Age of Obama. Still, for someone with some basic working knowledge on contemporary U.S. racial oppression, watching such racially blind discussions feels almost as surreal as watching a Major League Baseball game broadcast from a big city ballpark without a fan in the stands.</div></span><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431701940811_4974"></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, May 15, 2015 9:36 AM, Dianna Visek via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2258535863"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><span></span></div><div class="yiv2258535863qtdSeparateBR" id="yiv2258535863yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_20083"><br><br></div> <div class="yiv2258535863yahoo_quoted" id="yiv2258535863yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_20082" style="display: block;"> <div id="yiv2258535863yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_20081" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yiv2258535863yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_20080" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yiv2258535863yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_20079" dir="ltr"> <font id="yiv2258535863yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_20078" face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, May 15, 2015 8:33 AM, Dianna Visek <divisek@yahoo.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="yiv2258535863y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2258535863"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="yiv2258535863"><div id="yiv2258535863yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_16183"><div id="yiv2258535863yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_16182" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><span></span></div><div class="yiv2258535863qtdSeparateBR" id="yiv2258535863yui_3_16_0_1_1431693264295_16181"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> <div class="yiv2258535863yqt4669977255" id="yiv2258535863yqt93275"></div></div></div><div class="yiv2258535863yqt4669977255" id="yiv2258535863yqt00560"></div></div></div></div><title>[EVENT] Realizing Reform: Fixing Illinois’ Criminal Justice System</title><style type="text/css">
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.6em;">Gov. Bruce Rauner has tasked the state’s newly formed Illinois State Commission on Criminal Justice and Sentencing Reform with lowering the state’s prison population by 25% come 2025. This bold directive will take equally bold solutions.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Illinois’ criminal-justice system couldn’t be riper for change.</div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Decades of flawed sentencing laws have swelled the ranks of nonviolent offenders in state prisons, resulting in overcrowding and cash-strapped budgets.</div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">At the same time, barriers to employment have reduced opportunities for ex-offenders, making it even more difficult not to fall back into crime. A testament to this problem is Illinois’ high rate of recidivism – 47% of adult inmates will go back to prison within three years.</div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">But now, a diverse coalition is looking at ways to fix the problem.</div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Please join experts from the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Illinois Policy Institute, Families Against Mandatory Minimums and the Justice Fellowship, along with event sponsors the Charles Koch Institute and the Illinois Policy Institute, for a conversation exploring necessary solutions to a system that has been flawed for far too long.</div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Opening remarks:</strong><br clear="none">
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<span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); line-height: 16px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><em>Policy Adviser for Public Safety, Office of Governor Bruce Rauner</em></span><br clear="none">
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<em>Senior Fellow, Charles Koch Institute </em><br clear="none" style="text-align: center; line-height: 20.79px;">
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<em style="line-height: 1.6em;">Community Justice Lead Attorney, Shriver Center</em></div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">David Camic<br clear="none">
<em>Senior Fellow, Illinois Policy Institute</em></div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Greg Newburn<br clear="none">
<em><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">State Policy Director, Families Against Mandatory Minimums</span></em></div>
<div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Jesse Wiese<br clear="none">
<em>Policy Analyst, Justice Fellowship</em></div>
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