America Spends $80B Locking Up the Same People Again (Full)

America drops eighty billion dollars every year on prisons, yet 60 % of people walk right back in. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley close out Incarceration Nation with raw stories from the inside, proof the system is built to punish—not fix—and why education and real conversations beat endless lockup. They rip the band-aid off the justice system’s biggest failures and leave you pissed enough to demand better. You need to hear why awareness alone isn’t enough anymore.

Timestamps:

• (00:00) Incarceration Nation finale kicks off
• (01:45) Quick overview of the broken cycle
• (03:56) Real interviews with people who lived it
• (05:44) The justice system’s biggest failures exposed
• (16:05) Why education actually cuts crime
• (19:04) Systemic change or bust
• (24:13) Revitalizing education to stop the revolving door
• (25:02) Power of community and real talk
• (27:44) More proof the system is rigged
• (29:36) Why politicians won’t touch reform
• (33:25) The prison industrial complex laid bare
• (36:10) How listeners can push real solutions
• (40:03) Tease: next up, tackling homelessness

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