- Part 1: Chris Hedges: The Collapse of the American Judicial System
- Chris Hedges discusses restoring America’s justice system with legal scholar Edgar Cahn.
- Part 2: Why Technology Will Not Solve Our Criminal Justice Problems
- In the context of criminal justice, America’s faith in technological interventions is worse than misplaced; it is dangerous.
Compiled by David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest
Part 1: Chris Hedges: The Collapse of the American Judicial System
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Aug 5, 2017 | On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges discusses restoring America’s justice system with legal scholar Edgar Cahn. Cahn is a law professor, former counsel and speechwriter to Robert F. Kennedy, and co-founder of the Antioch School of Law which placed emphasis on serving the poor and trained prospective lawyers in social activism. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil examines the collapse of our legal system.
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Part 2: Why Technology Will Not Solve Our Criminal Justice Problems
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In the context of criminal justice, America’s faith in technological interventions is worse than misplaced; it is dangerous.
Jennifer L. Lieberman, Counterpunch / Rise Up Times
Auguist 2, 2017 | Technological and scientific interventions in criminal justice are not always newsworthy enough to draw our attention away from urgent and sensational issues on Capitol Hill. But when a jail in Tennessee promotes sterilization by offering reduced sentences to men who volunteer to have vasectomies, we have to pay attention. The problem is not that one jail implemented a terrible eugenicist policy; it is that stakeholders in the criminal justice system are consistently looking for scientific and technological solutions to social problems, forgetting that—as fivethirtyeight contributor Laura Hudson writes— “technology is biased too.”
In the context of criminal justice, America’s faith in technological interventions is worse than misplaced; it is dangerous.
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