What These Walls Won't Hold | The Root of Incarceration
Clip: Season 12 Episode 3 | 32sVideo has Closed Captions
Rahsaan Thomas talks about incarceration and why people get involved in crime.
Incarcerated at California's San Quentin State Prison, Rahsaan Thomas talks with Lonnie Morris about incarceration and the inhumanity of it, including why people get involved in crime and how isolation is the root cause.
Funding for America ReFramed provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Wyncote Foundation and Reva and David Logan Foundation.
What These Walls Won't Hold | The Root of Incarceration
Clip: Season 12 Episode 3 | 32sVideo has Closed Captions
Incarcerated at California's San Quentin State Prison, Rahsaan Thomas talks with Lonnie Morris about incarceration and the inhumanity of it, including why people get involved in crime and how isolation is the root cause.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipRahsaan: Relationships are activ and a pushback against the isola Isolation is actually a root cause to crime, 'cause if I feel isolated, if I feel like I'm not part of the community, then I don't respect or value community's rules or social norm But when I feel like I'm part of the community, then I have responsibility to my community, right?
It's central to our humanity, you know what I mean?
Without feeling loved, it's hard And if you don't feel love and you don't love, then you don't care.
If you don't care, you're a dangerous person.
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