Transportation
Passenger vans weave their way across the country transporting people for extradition, transfer, or deportation. Paid by the mile, they take extended and circuitous routes, avoid stops, and ignore the critical needs of their shackled passengers with gravely dehumanizing and fatal consequences. Learn about the impunity transportation corporations enjoy and what we need to do about it.
Assignment
Read Textbook Chapter 11: Transportation (pgs. 83 - 88)
Answer Discussion Guide questions in Chapter 11: Transportation (pg. 11)
Watch the Punishment + Profit webinar on Transportation
Watch and share this week’s 5 Quick Facts video on social media
the brian lehrer show
punishment + Profit
A webinar series in collaboration with The Greene Space at New York Public Radio. Watch the replay below!
Speakers
Joseph De La Luz
Directly Impacted Expert
Alysia Santos
Staff Writer,
The Marshall Project
Eli Hager
Staff Writer,
The Marshall Project
Victoria Maxwell
Former Dispatcher and Industry Whistleblower
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