Kerner Report: Ep 11: Law & Order vs Justice: How America Chose Prisons Over Promise

In this episode, Connie Morris traces how the Kerner Commission’s call for investment and justice was rejected in favor of a “law and order” political agenda that led to Nixon’s war on drugs, bipartisan harsh sentencing, and mass incarceration. She explains how protests were reframed as crime, how funding shifted from social programs to policing and prisons, and how these choices tore apart communities.

Morris links these historical decisions to the present, frames the episode as a crossroads between justice and control, and previews the next installment on how the prison system became the nation’s answer to inequality.

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