* May 14, 8-8:30 p.m. Community Women's Voices. Channel 77, SCANTV (GREATER SEATTLE). Television interview/Greater Seattle area Jan Strout interviews Silja Talvi about incarceration and media justice on the monthly program, Community Women's Voices. Channel 77, SCANTV. The interview will also be streamed live at: http://www.scantv.org. 

From the show:

In 2004, Estelle Richardson's lifeless and battered body was found on the floor of a Corrections Corp. of America prison cell. Four years later, that unsolved homicide has come back to haunt Republican stalwart "Gus" Puryear, the nation's top private prison litigator and Bush nominee for U.S. District Court. Read Silja Talvi's two-part, investigative feature for AlterNet here: http://www.alternet.org/rights/84388/

*Mike McCormick-Mind Over Matters-90.3 KEXP

Talvi talks about the book and the crisis of women in US prison systems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8zH3Tri2JA

*INCARCERATED IN AMERICA - KUOW 94.9 -Seattle's NPR Affiliate

First, a conversation on the week's news in Canada with correspondent Vaughn Palmer, political correspondent for the Vancouver Sun. Then, for the first time in U.S. history, more than one out of every 100 adults is in jail or prison. That's according to a new report from the Pew Center on the States which documents America's rank as the world's No. 1 incarcerator. Does locking more people up make us all safer? What are the societal impacts of having so many people in the justice system? Who exactly is going to prison, and what is it like there? Today on Weekday we'll talk incarceration.

http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=14534

* Ms. Magazine's review of Women Behind Bars, by Professor Joy James

Powell's website: http://www.powells.com/review/2007_11_11.html

* Megan Sukys of Seattle's NPR-affiliate, KUOW,"Sound Focus,"

Talvi talks about the difficult situation of having a loved one behind bars while writing the book: http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=13822

* Lee Callahan,"Community Matters:" Seattle's progressive 1090 AM

Callahan and Talvi discuss the drug war conspiracy charges, girls in detention, sexual abuse and self-medication through illegal drugs, and more.  http://www.am1090seattle.com/pages/194099.php

* Matthew Korfhage of the Pulitzer-prize winning Willamette Weekly

 http://wweek.com/editorial/3352/9931/

* Timothy Harris, the Executive Director of Real Change "Throwaway Women:"

Seattle journalist Silja Talvi reveals the living nightmares of the female inmates who are filling U.S. prisons in ever greater numbers.

 http://www.realchangenews.org/2007/2007_11_14/main_v14n47.html

Paul Wright and Silja Talvi: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration?

Getting back to our series on the “War at Home”, this week’s show features Paul Wright founder and editor of Prison Legal News who breaks new ground by exposing the various corporate scams involved in the warehousing of 2.3 million, mostly poor people in the US.  This is not only a vestige of a brutal class war but in itself represents a huge transfer of wealth- $80B per year in operating costs and almost a trillion dollars since 1980 for prison construction that could just as easily be spent on education, the single most important factor in keeping people out of prison.  One aspect that people rarely think about is how prisons are financed by massive bond issues which in themselves represent a direct transfer of wealth from taxpayers to wealthy bond owners and Wall Street bankers and traders.  A robbery of limited credit resources needed for other infrastructure.  A 200M dollar prison will cost upwards of 260M over the life of the bonds.

Joining Paul Wright in this program is award winning investigative journalist Silja Talvi, senior editor at In These Times and author of the recent bookWomen Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System who talks about the unprecedented growth of women in prison [mostly for nonviolent drug related crimes] and the scandelous conditions they have to endure. 

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