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Guest: Andrew Rossi, documentary filmmaker and investigative director.
“It's sort of a question of why people don't know about things that are happening with our tax dollars in our backyards. You know, are there things that we don't want to know?”
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Recognize prisons as opaque 'black sites' that evade public accountability despite significant tax-dollar funding.
“Because of the secrecy that surrounds prisons, you know, we treat them sort of like black sites. There's no way for us to really look inside.”
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Identify the market failure in corrections: low guard wages create a lucrative, guard-led drug and contraband monopoly inside facilities.
“I've spoken to guards who said, you know, we make $36,000 a year without the drugs... Of course, we got to sell the cell phones and the drugs because that takes us up to 70 or 75,000.”