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Should America have houses of slaves? Neuroplasticity, cocaine & 20 years in jail | Meet Lyle Wildes, the real life Walter White

Philip Bateman Season 3 Episode 5

Meet Lyle Wildes, the real life Breaking Bad / Walter White, a philosophy professor that acquired a brain injury crashing his truck into a bridge, losing all empathy, becoming a drug dealer making synthetic cocaine, being arrested and spending twenty years in jail, enabling him to discover the key to reducing recidivism;

85% of inmates have 3 or more ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) factors, compared with 7% of the general population that have 3 or less.  And we can fix it before kids get to jail.

Join us in this deep-dive into humanity, the brain and the link between Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs), as well as:

- changing the culture of prisons
- the 500 year old, failed model of incarceration
- why it's an antiquated way of treating people who attack the power structure
- domestic violence, neuroplasticity, Positive Attitude classes and ending cycles of trauma
- the rolling door of the US prison population, with 25% being released each year and 25% being arrested (700,000 people)
 - how this creates the legal vehicle for slavery

I greatly appreciate those in our criminal justice systems who give so much to the safety and cohesion of our society, this conversation asks 'could we do it better?'

Thanks to the ACLU, Anti-Recidivism Coalition, Amnesty International USA, Center for Court Innovation, Charles Hamilton Houston Foundation, Inc., Color Of Change, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, FWD.us, Right On Crime, The Marshall Project, Southern Center for Human Rights, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ), The Gault Center, InsideOUT Writers, Californians for Safety and Justice, Coalition for Public Safety, Critical Resistance, Dream.Org, Prison Fellowship International, Prison Policy Initiative, Right On Crime, The Sentencing Project,

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