Public Safety Director, St. Louis Resident And Co-Founder Of Ben & Jerry's Talk Workhouse, Cash Bail
St. Louis on the Air · St. Louis Public Radio
June 14, 201926m 45s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (kwmu-adswizz.streamguys1.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
On Tuesday a federal judge ruled that St. Louis jails cannot hold inmates simply because they cannot make bail. That decision came just one day before a press conference at City Hall, where Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, joined representatives of the Close the Workhouse campaign in urging city officials to shut down the Medium Security Institution, known as the workhouse. In this episode of "St. Louis on the Air," Cohen joins Inez Bordeaux, who spent about a month incarcerated in the workhouse in 2016, for a conversation with St. Louis Public Radio’s Jonathan Ahl. Ahl also talks with the city’s public safety director, Jimmie Edwards, who gives his perspective on the condition of the workhouse, the cash bail system and related topics.