Have you ever questioned how we view criminals? This episode of Defund DOC challenges the status quo and explores the surprising role "criminals" have played in securing our freedoms.

Hosts Linda and Daniel J. Simms discuss:

• How acts of civil disobedience, once deemed criminal, paved the way for social progress (think alcohol prohibition and access to birth control).
• The disproportionate impact of mass incarceration on disadvantaged communities.
• Why a "tough on crime" approach fails and the urgent need for reform.
• Bipartisan solutions: reducing sentences, prioritizing rehabilitation, and dismantling prison slavery.

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• Treatment and career centers in place of prisons.
• Reduced sentences for non-violent offenses.
• Robust re-entry programs to help people rejoin society.

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Exceptional Presidential leader of the Asian Pacific Islander (API) Cultural Awareness Group, Michael Matol, illuminates his journey. From being a troubled impoverished gang member in San Diego, California. Losing friends to gun violence and Imprisonment. To a rap musician and producer. Revealing his immense gratitude at receiving an invaluable gift of mentorship that put him on a new path in the music industry. Ultimately he unveils how he found himself ensnared by the mass incarceration system. Without varnish he shared the truths of inequities and injustices that are destroying our people. Along with his views for Carceral State reform. With a delightful conversation on his vigorous advocacy for cultural awareness and the victims of mass incarceration (i.e. children of the incarcerated, trauma to prison pipeline, criminalized abuse victims, etc.).

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The A.I. revolution unveils new technologies or applications each day. And each innovation surprises and astonishes us anew. Modest estimates predict that sixty percent of all jobs will be obsolete within the next twenty years. That is one adverse effect of the coming A.I. revolution that we must face. Historical data can help us ascertain what will happen when masses of Americans are unemployed and impoverished. Such mass layoff events occurred in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's. Millions of Americans lost their jobs due to free trade agreements that outsourced unprecedented amount of jobs to China, Mexico, and many other countries. What coincided with the mass layoffs? The explosion of mass incarceration. We believe this was by design. The government essentially funnelled the out of work impoverished bodies, or their sons or daughters, into the many beds waiting for them in mass incarceration. Ultimately from 1970's until 2000 mass incarceration skyrocketed six-hundred percent. And from 1999 until 2010 mass incarceration jumped another seventy six percent resulting in a 37 overcapacity. Accordingly if historically widespread unemployment and poverty led to over-incarceration then we can reasonably infer our future lies there too. Therefore we can logically conclude, due to immensely intelligent machines and software applications designed to surveil and inculpate us, in addition to historical data, that within the next fifty years half of the American population will be felons, jailed, imprisoned, or on mass surveillance. That means there will only be two classes of people in the next fifty years. The non-felon elite class and the felon underclass. It is a very bleak future that is virtually guaranteed unless we unite for criminal justice and prison reform. We must enact reasonable measures such as Universal Income, turn all prisons into treatment and career centers, end prisoner slavery, and reduce overly harsh sentences down to a maximum of eight years for all non-homicide offenses and twenty year maximum for homicide offenses. The government will be given an adequate amount of time to rehabilitate and restore our people. As we mature and grow as a society we must demand that our government stop enslaving our troubled people and stealing their wages. Our government should not be in the business of slavery. It should be in the business of saving and restoring our troubled sons and daughters. Without a doubt A.I. will wreak havoc upon the working and poor classes. The same classes preyed on by harsh criminal justice policies. Therefore it is time we examine a new solution that is not predicated on militaristic harsh and oppressive systemic theft of our people's labor.