From Crescent to Cage

Controversial Crucial Conversations by Quintin Dukes
S1 · E4
Feb 28, 2026
28:26

Episode notes

Quintin Dukes exposes the correlation between historic redlining maps and present day incarceration rates, introducing the concept of the Crescent to Cage Pipeline. He explains how marginalized urban communities are economically extracted while rural towns profit from incarceration.

This episode challenges listeners to follow the money, confront performative activism, and rethink systems that treat people as commodities rather than contributors.

Keywords

Rochester New York
incarceration
redlining
economic extraction
systemic racism
prison economy