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It is the intention of Jaws of Justice Radio to investigate how to achieve justice in America, this includes issues of economic injustice, political injustice and the criminal justice system. We want to put a human face on those caught in the grasp of injustice and those that are part of an unjust system. We strive to dispel the misconceptions created by the news and entertainment industry, politicians and our educational system.
Welcome to Jaws of Justice Radio on 90.1 FM, KKFI, Kansas City Community Radio. It’s Monday morning, my name is Terri. Jaws of Justice Radio investigates how we can achieve justice from a system of laws deeply rooted in economic, social and political inequality. We want to dispel misconceptions created by the news and entertainment industry, politicians and our educational system. We hope you will listen.
For our show on February 17, 2025, host Terri Wilke will speak with Black feminist sociologist and USC professor Brittany Friedman. https://www.brittanyfriedman.com/
Dr. Friedman is an expert on the dark side of American institutions. In her new book Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons (University of North Carolina Press, January 2025), Friedman shows that beginning in the 1950s, prison officials declared war on imprisoned Black people and sought to identify Black militants as a key problem creating a strategy for the management, segregation, and elimination of these individuals from the prison population that continues into the present day. The book has been called a pathbreaking work full of explosive findings on the coordination of white supremacy, corrections, policing, and the lies to cover it up. Dr. Brittany Friedman is recognized as an innovative thinker on how people and institutions hide harmful truths. Her current work examines this in the realm of social control, and the underside of government such as prisons, courts, and treasuries. Friedman is considered a pathbreaking scholar producing big ideas that blow the whistle on bad behavior within society.
https://www.brittanyfriedman.com/carceral-apartheid
It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons. There is a particular power dynamic of racist intent in the prison system that culminates in what Brittany Friedman terms “carceral apartheid.” Prisons are a microcosm of how carceral apartheid operates as a larger governing strategy to decimate political targets and foster deceit, disinformation, and division in society.
Drawing from original interviews with founders of Black political movements such as the Black Guerilla Family, white supremacists, and a swath of little known archival data, Friedman uncovers how the US domestic war against imprisoned Black people models and perpetuates genocide, imprisonment, and torture abroad.
On Jaws of Justice, we examine how to find justice in our society. Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
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