we miss the opportunity to take the lesson from attica.e miss the opportunity ttake what makes them make institution safer e entry people huhumanely. amy: you served on a national academy y of sciences blue-ribbn panel that studied the cacauses and conseqncnces of mass incacarceration in the u.s. interestingly, the book this year that one the pulitzer prize, l like yours, deals with prisons. >> that's right. amy: talk about what the recommendations are that you made then and what you think has to happen now. >> well, the report that was issued by the national academies made very clear that we are going in the wrong direction, that longer sentences do not make us safer, that prisons do not make us safer, and that we took a very, very bad policy turn 40 years ago and thahat ths is something that we can correct, that we can revererse what we have done. but it is going to take political will. notably, we were on the verge of doing some of that prior to the last election. and i think we have lost ground.us it is remarkable, again, this is one o

we miss the opportunity to take the lesson from attica.e miss the opportunity to take what makes them make institution safer entry people humanely. amy: you served on a national academy of sciences blue-ribbon panel that studied the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in the u.s. interestingly, the book this year that one the pulitzer prize, like yours, deals with prisons. >> that's right. amy: talk about what the recommendations are that you made then and what you think has to happen now. >> well, the report that was issued by the national academies made very clear that we are going in the wrong direction, that longer sentences do not make us safer, that prisons do not make us safer, and that we took a very, very bad policy turn 40 years ago and that this is something that we can correct, that we can reverse what we have done. but it is going to take political will. notably, we were on the verge of doing some of that prior to the last election. and i think we have lost ground.us it is remarkable, again, this is one of the state

thank you so much to andrea , and sayickey mccoy democratic legislator attica scott. this is democracy now! when we come back, speaking about movements, we go south. .e go to memphis, tennessee 50 years ago today, a man who movements, dr. martin luther king, was gunned down, assassinated on the balcony of the lorraine motel. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "which side are you on" by ani difranco. i am amy goodman. 50 years ago today when dr. martin luther king was assassinated in memphis, tennessee, just 39 years old. we turn now to a conversation i recently had with pulitzer prize winning historian taylor branch and with writer trey ellis. they both work on the new hbo documentary called "king in the wilderness." it premiered at sundance. it went on hbo this week. it recalls the last three years of king's life. i began by talking to taylor branch, who wrote the "america in the king years" trilogy. let's talk about the last three years were dr. king is moving north and he would say at that time he was never so afraid as he was in chicago. i mean, for all that he fa

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. >> facebook is in hot water after allegations cambridge endo attica misused data of 87 million userse figure is roughly the combined populations of new york, texas, and california. and amy klobuchar both have a chance to question sub or don mark zuckerberg signaled her approach. "i expect to ask him what he is doing to protect the privacy of americans and how he will addresses significant breaches of privacy and trust that have occurred over the last year." chuck grassley says users deserve to know how their information is shared and secured. senate commerce chairman republican john thune says the revelations have generated significant concern about facebook's role in our democrac democracy. congressional sources say these hearings will be the first step toward increased scrutiny over the tax industry, with a particular focus on my data and online advertising business model. bret? >> bret: mike, thanks. up next, the g.o.p. tries to flip a democratic senate seat in ohio. as the incumbent tries to appeal to republicans. keep it here. ♪ wish we got money back on gym memberships. get mon

so i went to chef ben shewry, he runs one of the best restaurants in the world, attica. >> so we'll make parts of the pumpkin, so everything. >> yea! >> so we have pumpkin seeds, and some pumpkin skin, some chives, pumpkin oil. >> pumpkin oil? >> and now we have a piece of pumpkin that was steamed for 12 hours. i'm gonna finish it with a pumpkin and beer. >> dude, this is fancy as [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] >> in australia, we got the salada cracker. and we're going to put butter on it. >> i like this so far. >> okay, so now we're going to do the same thing with this vegemite. >> rumor has it that vegemite is disgusting. is that true? >> i think it is a little bit true. [ laughter ] are you okay? [ laughter ] >> this tastes so bad. you're supposed to be a good chef. [ laughter ] ben had a beautiful restaurant full of delicious food, except vegemite. australia is incredible. i had such a good time that for a moment, i actually forgot who the president was. thanks, australia. it was truly the trip of a lifetime. and for good measure, let's take one last look at that baby. australia. [ cheers