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CSJ-12-0046.0 Truthiness: This American Life and the Monologist On January 6, 2012, the weekly public radio program This American Life (TAL) aired what turned out to be its most popular show ever, “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” an adaptation of Mike Daisey’s monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. Daisey’s expose of working conditions at a Chinese factory that produced the iPad had been playing to sold- out New York audiences for months. TAL host and reporter Ira Glass saw a performance, and engaged Daisey to tape an abridged version for the radio show. On the radio program, Daisey described working conditions at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, which supplied Apple. He gave lurid details of deformed, underage and poorly paid workers. Listeners were riveted: they downloaded the TAL podcast over one million times, nearly double the usual rate of 600,000. Listeners tweeted and retweeted the show’s URL, and bloggers had a field day. Daisey made appearances on The Ed Show (CSNBC), CBS News, the PBS News Hour and others. Whether in response to the TAL report or other developments, Apple a week later released an annual Supplier Responsibility Progress report nearly a month earlier than the previous year. In it, the company announced that it had hired a nonprofit organization to conduct periodic unannounced visits to its factories to observe and report any violations. TAL could not know whether the Daisey segment had inspired the announcement, but Apple was addressing issues Daisey had raised. Meanwhile, New York Times reporters were preparing a three-part investigative series about dangerous conditions at Apple’s suppliers and factories in China. -
Decarceration Courts: Possibilities and Perils of a Shifting Criminal Law
Georgetown University Law Center Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW 2012 Decarceration Courts: Possibilities and Perils of a Shifting Criminal Law Allegra M. McLeod Georgetown University Law Center, [email protected] This paper can be downloaded free of charge from: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1276 100 Geo. L.J. 1587-1674 (2012) This open-access article is brought to you by the Georgetown Law Library. Posted with permission of the author. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub Part of the Courts Commons, Criminal Law Commons, Judges Commons, and the Jurisprudence Commons Decarceration Courts: Possibilities and Perils of a Shifting Criminal Law ALLEGRA M. MCLEOD* A widely decried crisis confronts U.S. criminal law. Jails and prisons are overcrowded and violence plagued. Additional causes for alarm include the rate of increase of incarcerated populations, their historically and internationally unprecedented size, their racial disproportionality, and exorbitant associated costs. Although disagreement remains over the precise degree by which incarcera- tion ought to be reduced, there is a growing consensus that some measure of decarceration is desirable. With hopes of reducing reliance on conventional criminal supervision and incarceration, specialized criminal courts proliferated dramatically over the past two decades. There are approximately 3,000 specialized criminal courts in the United States, including drug courts, mental health courts, veterans courts, and reentry courts. The existing scholarly commentary on specialized criminal courts is largely trapped in the mode of advocacy, alternately celebratory or disparaging, and insufficiently attentive to the remarkable variation between different specialized criminal courts. In contrast, this Article takes a closer and more critical look at the marked expansion of these courts as a peculiar strategy to devise alternatives to conventional jail- and prison-based sentenc- ing. -
Could Specialized Criminal Courts Help Contain the Crises of Overcriminalization and Overincarceration?
Georgetown University Law Center Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW 2012 Could Specialized Criminal Courts Help Contain the Crises of Overcriminalization and Overincarceration? Allegra M. McLeod Georgetown University Law Center, [email protected] This paper can be downloaded free of charge from: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1414 http://ssrn.com/abstract=2539155 Legal Workshop, 2012 This open-access article is brought to you by the Georgetown Law Library. Posted with permission of the author. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub Part of the Courts Commons, Criminal Law Commons, Criminal Procedure Commons, and the Jurisprudence Commons Could Specialized Criminal Courts Help Contain the Crises of Overcriminalization and Overincarceration? Allegra M. McLeod 2012 The Explosion of Specialized Criminal Courts: An Introduction With aspirations of reducing reliance on incarceration, specialized criminal courts proliferated widely over the past two decades. There are approximately 3,000 specialized criminal courts in the United States, including drug courts, mental health courts, veterans courts, and reentry courts. These courts arose as a judicially-innovated attempt to devise anti-formalist alternatives to traditional probation, jail and prison for particular categories of defendants: drug addicts, mentally ill persons, and veterans, among others. The courts’ enduring popularity is due largely to their promise to rationalize and humanize criminal sentencing and lower levels of imprisonment, -
This American Life Episode 430 "Very Tough Love" March 25, 2011 This
This American Life Episode 430 "Very Tough Love" March 25, 2011 This transcript contains material from the podcast/online version of the story which was not part of the broadcast version due to time constraints. Lindsey Dills is 24. She's from a place in Southern Georgia called Glynn Country, right on the coast. Nearest big town is a partly gentrified, mostly impoverished city called Brunswick, population 16-thousand. Though I interviewed her in a prison way upstate. Lindsey: Okay, I'm Lindsey Dills. This is Lee Arrendale State Prison. Before all this, I was – I was all state for soccer five years in a row. I was expected to have a scholarship to college. A couple scouts had contacted my dad, my coach at my school. But in her sophomore year of high school, Lindsey started smoking pot. She began working at this bar and restaurant, Spanky's, as a waitress, ran with an older crowd she met at the restaurant. By senior year she was doing coke in a pretty serious way, she had a 21-year-old boyfriend, which at the time she thought was the coolest thing ever, though now she sees that differently. And finally senior year, she quit soccer. Which of course her dad and every other adult tried to talk her out of. Lindsey: The coaches were calling the house, telling my dad to ‘talk to her.’ And part of it was the drugs, part of it was I'd done it so long. And I wanted to be a teenager. I wanted to do stuff on weekends and I wanted not to have to practice at 5 in the morning and I didn't want to have to run 3 miles every other day.