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Journalist and author Tony Messenger joins host Marty Duren for a troubling look at how poverty is criminalized and exploited for municipal gain.
Tony Messenger is the Metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch where he won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He’s the author of Profit and Punishment: How American Criminalized the Poor in the Name of Justice. His work has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of New Editors, and the Scripps Howard Foundation. And in 2016 he was awarded the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism by the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
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