Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ Streets and Scholars podcast with Alex Alonso & F.G. Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ LA Sheriff’s Deputies cause permanent eye damage and Miko Worldwide was really robbed | Streets & Scholars (EP37) - Streets and Scholars

Episode 37

LA Sheriff’s Deputies cause permanent eye damage and Miko Worldwide was really robbed | Streets & Scholars (EP37)

In this episode 37 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso they discuss: 

1. Female Correctional Officer at FCI Dublin, Tess Korth, blew the whistle on the sex scandal at the prison that got several male employees indicted for having sex with female prisoners. Ross Klinger recently plead guilty, the Chaplain James Highhouse received 84 months (7 years) in prison. The Warden, Ray J. Garcia was charged along with Enriquez Chavez and John Russell Bellhouse. 

2. Former prisoner at FCI Dublin, Andrea Reyes has come forward with what she experienced doing time at Dublin. 

3. Two Los Angeles council members, Kevin Deleon and Gil Cedillo refuse to resign after leaked audios that have been characterized as racist went viral on the internet. 

4. Two Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies brutaly assault security guard Blake Anderson in Inglewood. Was it excessive force or was Blake resisting? Tap in to episode 37 to hear the Streets and Scholars perspective. 

5. Miko Worldwide was really robbed. A video posted by Slatt Zy where he admitted to robbing Miko for a chain and his gun (blick) last September. A video where people thought was fake turned out to be real. Slatt Zy was picked out of a lineup by Miko Worldwide. Wait til you hear what FG had to say about Miko on this situation.   

* Watch Cinemills interview of Alex Alonso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=301zkTi7GDs

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Alex Alonso is the owner and curator of LAnd Media, a podcasting network that brings dope content directly from the raw streets to your ears, facilitated through amazing conversations and interviews on street politics, gang culture, prison life, music and hip-hop, criminal justice issues and whatever else our dope hosts want to spit.