Amy Goodman
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Who Goes To Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice Gap From Wall Street to Main Street (1/2)
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April 15, 2014
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20:01Now PlayingAwardwinning journalist Matt Taibbi is out with an explosive new book that asks why the vast majority of whitecollar criminals have avoided prison since the financial crisis began, while an unequal justice system imprisons the poor and people of color on a mass scale. In "The DivideAmerican Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap," Taibbi explores how the Depressionlevel income gap between the wealthy and the poor is mirrored by a "justice" gap in who is targeted for prosecution and imprisonment. "It is much more grotesque to consider the nonenforcement of whitecollar criminals when you do consider how incredibly aggressive law enforcement is with regard to everybody else," Taibbi says.
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