Episode 6 - US Neoslavery: A History of the Prison Industrial Present

NEPR College Connection

Dennis Childs at UMass Amherst speaks on US Neoslavery: A History of the Prison Industrial Present. Childs, associate professor of African American literature and an affiliate faculty member of the department of ethnic studies and critical gender studies at the University of California, San Diego, spoke about the past and present incarceration of the poor and people of color as a continuation of the modern practice of slavery in the U.S.