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Document Type
Podcast
Publication Year
2022
Description
White collar crimes and the federal prison sentences that often accompany them have become mythologized and white-washed in American society. The “country club” myth of federal prisons has proliferated in the wake of prominent financial scandals like those of Bernie Madoff and Martha Stewart. But this characterization of federal white collar crime erases the very racialized, very difficult reality that accompanies a federal white collar prison sentence for most Americans incarcerated in a federal penitentiary. In this episode of CRT2, we explore the reality behind federal white collar criminal charges, including the life-long collateral consequences and exorbitant restitution judgements that can follow from a conviction. Tanya Pierce, who served time at FCI Danbury, joins us to discuss what a white collar federal sentence is really like.
Disciplines
Criminal Law | Law and Race | Race and Ethnicity
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Center/Program
Studio for Law and Culture
Recommended Citation
Curcio, Alyssa; Mendoza, Alex; Thornton, Imani; and Pierce, Tanya, "CRT2 S2 Ep7: White Collar Crime: Racial Disparity and Restitution" (2022). CRT2 Season 2. 5.
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/crt2_2/5
Episode Details
Length: 38:04
Featuring:
Tanya Pierce is the Founder of Life Unbolted.
Production:
This episode was written, recorded, and produced by Alex Mendoza, Imani Thornton, and Alyssa Curcio.