Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, points to A New Way of Life Re-Entry Program in South Los Angeles as a model for the kind of bold initiative needed to build what she calls a "new underground railroad" -- a network of families, faith communities, and organizations dedicated to providing desperately needed support and love to those newly released from prison. A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad: Making a Break for Freedom During the Era of Mass Incarceration is a 29-minute radio documentary that weaves together the voices of Michelle Alexander, Susan Burton (founder of A New Way of Life), and five residents of this remarkable re-entry program for women, showing the human face of those society stigmatizes as "criminals" and illustrating the essential role of the emerging "new underground railroad" within the growing movement to dismantle the U.S. system of mass incarceration. More information available here.
Listen to A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad on Radio Baha’i on Thursday, September 5th and on Thursday, September 12th, at 10:00 AM, 7:00 PM, and midnight, at 90.9 FM, Radio Baha'i.
