re: #473 palmerskiss

mother jones is not the american sphere. no no - you get fox news to ask it - now we are talking.

Okay. Can you tell me your plan for getting Fox news to ask it? This is getting ridiculous—every ‘plan’ you have is just another hand-waving, requiring a new plan to make it happen.

Let me give you an example. Our prison system is a horrible, racist, unfair mess. It’s not just the for-profit angle, but also stuff like the prison guard union in California that’s making it shitty. I am attempting to enact prison reform in two ways: First of all, by working with a prisoner’s advocacy program that goes and speaks to political groups about how hard life is for excons and asks them to fund halfway houses and other such things, and I bring citizen groups to meet with state senators and representatives about rehabilitative care inside prisons.

Second, I also advocate for diversion programs, midnight basketball, and other things that can help break the horrific prison cycle, and campaign and work for candidates who advocate those measures and have the political know-how to follow through on that.

I do not attempt to get the GOP-led house to do something about it by getting reporters to ask questions about the prison system, because that’s not an actual path: these questions do get asked, reports get written, specials get done, and yet things don’t change. In order for this to work, the entirety of US media would have to be changed.