- January 31, 2014 | Moyers & CompanyJournalist and creator of the TV series The Wire talks about the crisis of capitalism in America and how it's dividing our country.
- December 20, 2013 | Moyers & CompanyBill Moyers speaks with activist Michelle Alexander about the key to unlocking our dehumanizing system of incarceration, and shares a clip from a film about an ex-convict who helps women get back on their feet after prison.
- November 22, 2013 | Moyers & CompanyScholar Henry Giroux says America's current political system is leading to a culture where people are so focused on surviving, they become like "the walking dead."
- March 29, 2013 | Moyers & CompanyJournalists Martin Clancy and Tim O’Brien share the history, human stories and tragic inequities behind capital punishment in America.
- March 29, 2013 | Moyers & CompanyAttorney and legal scholar Bryan Stevenson joins Bill to expose the class prejudices of our criminal justice system.
- March 29, 2013 | Moyers & CompanyWhy is true justice -- not just the word we recite from the Pledge of Allegiance -- still unaffordable for those who need it most?
- June 29, 2012 | Moyers & CompanyBill and Khalil Gibran Muhammad discuss the importance of confronting the contradictions of America’s past.
- April 2, 2010Bill and two prominent civil rights attorneys talk about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s vision for economic justice.
- March 31, 1998 | Moyers on Addiction: Close to HomeMoyers talks with people working to change American drug policy from a criminal-justice approach to a public-health model.
- May 26, 1992 | Listening to AmericaBill Moyers focuses examines how violence is affecting American life through a look at Dallas, Texas.
America has the highest incarceration rate of any nation, with almost 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Statistically, nearly one in 100 Americans is doing time, and, according to the prison reform group, The Sentencing Project, “More than 60% of the people in prison are now racial and ethnic minorities. For Black males in their thirties, 1 in every 10 is in prison or jail on any given day. These trends have been intensified by the disproportionate impact of the ‘war on drugs,’ in which two-thirds of all persons in prison for drug offenses are people of color.” In this collection, we look at our prison system as the new Jim Crow and the state of the American criminal justice system.