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An Iraqi mother and her children stand near an Iraqi army soldier (U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price)Eye on Iraq
This is an important week for US policy on Iraq with the Iraq Study Group issuing its official report as well as Senate hearings for the new defense secretary. We talk about both in Monday Morning Politics. Plus: why the prison population is reaching an all-time high and a conversation with playwright Julia Cho about her new take on the family roadtrip, Durango.
Investigating the Investigation
Norman Siegel, civil rights attorney who works with 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement, former executive director of the NYCLU
- why he's calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the police shooting of Sean Bell
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Mike Isikoff, investigative reporter, Newsweek and co-author with David Corn, of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War (Crown 2006), available for purchase at Amazon.com
- what next for the president after the Iraq Study Group report comes out and the hearings for the new Secretary Defense begin
The Prison Population
Paige Harrison, statistician at the Bureau of Statistics at the Department of Justice and author of the report on the population of the US prison system
- on her report on the number of people in the US prison system
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Abu Qadir Al-Amin, associate director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, an organization focused on promoting balanced and humane criminal justice policies that reduce incarceration and promotes long-term public safety
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Marc Mauer, executive director The Sentencing Project , national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration
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David B. Muhlhausen, Ph.D., senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation focusing on criminal justice
- discuss the new report from the Department of Justice on who is in the American prison system
Family Outing
Julia Cho, playwright
- on her new play Durango about a Korean-American family's trip to Colorado
Durango is in performance through December 10th at the Public Theater.
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