Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
President Barack Obama has had a lot of firsts in his time in office: first African American president, first president to establish a healthcare system, first president to sing on national TV.
He'll have another interesting first come Thursday: He'll be the first sitting president to tour a federal prison.
He spoke on Tuesday to a group of leaders and supporters at the annual NAACP Convention in Philadelphia and talked about prison reform and the dramatic increase in Americans behind bars.
Sarah Wheaton, a White House Reporter for Politico, and Andrew Cohen, editor with the Marshall Project, joined the show to talk about the president's push for sentencing reform