Video evidence - Reform specific parts
Lynne Haney
Professor of Sociology, New York University; author of Prisons of Debt (2022)
Video: Lynne Haney: on writing PRISONS OF DEBT
University of California Press author video (publisher promotional clip for "Prisons of Debt"), 2022-08-04(upload date; the recording date is not stated)
Lynne Haney
University of California Press author video (publisher promotional clip for "Prisons of Debt") - 2022-08-04
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What is said at 0:40
"and from those interviews I learned that the average debt for fathers leaving prison was over 36 thousand dollars, and the majority of fathers had also been back to prison or jail because of that child support debt. And I thought, how is this possible? How is it possible that in the contemporary United States, um, parents leave prison with that kind of debt"
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What they argue
Researcher argues the child support and criminal justice systems have merged into cycles of debt and punishment for incarcerated fathers, and calls for a few concrete policy changes plus systemic change.
Position label: Reform specific parts. It describes this clip only, and "abolish" is used only when the speaker says it.
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