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Mass Incarceration and the Legacy of Slavery

Leo Jackson received two life sentences for heroin trafficking due to mandatory minimums.

Leo Jackson, a former prisoner at Angola State Prison, is now a minister in New Orleans, Louisiana. Because of the minimum mandatory sentencing laws in Louisiana, Leo received two life sentences for heroin trafficking. After serving 32 years, he was pardoned in large part because of the spiritual work and community building he conducted while in prison.

AIR DATE 10/7/16

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About Dream On

In an epic road trip, political comedian John Fugelsang retraces the nearly two-hundred-year-old journey of Alexis de Tocqueville. Along the way he explores whether the optimistic spirit of the American Dream that Tocqueville popularized is alive and well in the twenty-first century.

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