WGXC-90.7 FM

Law and Disorder: Andrew Cockburn, Kelsey Kaufmann

Jan 01, 2018: 2pm - 3pm
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Sixteen years have passed since the 911 attacks. Guest Andrew Cockburn, the Washington editor of Harpers magazine, has written an extremely important article in the October issue titled "Crime and Punishment: Will the 9/11 Case Finally Go To Trial?" about the class-action law suit brought by the victims of 9/11 against the government of Saudi Arabia. And from the 18th to early 20th centuries, Catholic institutions known as the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland effectively enslaved unmarried mothers, where infants and mothers were subjected to brutal conditions and died in the hundreds. Guest Kelsey Kaufmann, founder of a small college program at the Indiana Women's Prison, discusses her research on similar homes which became the first women's prisons in the U.S. Produced at WBAI New York.