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John Oliver Takes On The Prison Industrial Complex

Miles Kampf-Lassin July 24, 2014

In this clip from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the host skewers the United States prison system, highlighting the incredible incarceration rates, racial disproportion of inmates, the failed War on Drugs and the private prison industry—and does so with comedy and puppets.

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Miles Kampf-Lassin is Senior Editor at In These Times. Follow him at @MilesKLassin

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