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The Daily Briefing
KPFK FM
Los Angeles: 90.7 fm
Thur, 03/18/2010
Robert Perkinson discusses Texas Tough with KPFK’s Ian Masters.
The Incarcerated Society
KBOO FM
Portland: 90.7 fm
Sun, 08/16/2009
The US is “the most incarcerated society on earth,” according to Robert Perkinson, author of Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire. The Old Mole’s Bill Resnick talks with Perkinson about how we got this way. An excellent companion article in Dissident Voice on this topic is here.
Title: The Incarcerated Society
Album: August 17, 2009
Length: 17:39 minutes (10.11 MB)
The Jeff Farias Show 6/25/09
At 5 PM Robert Perkinson is the author of the forthcoming book, Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2008). His family hails from the South (Mississippi, Virginia, and Texas), and he grew up in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He became interested in criminal justice as a college student in Colorado, where prisons were springing up faster than Wal-Marts in the 1980s and 1990s. In graduate school at Yale, he decided to focus his research on the history of racism and criminal justice in the South, and he eventually settled on the Lone Star State, where the action is. His book is a history of American punishment from slavery to the present, with an emphasis on Texas, the most incarcerated and politically influential state in the nation. He is currently a professor at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. He was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship in 2006.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090706/perkinson
Length: 174:23m
Video
Robert Perkinson lecturing on “American Race Relations in the Age of Obama” at Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea on November 19, 2008.
