What Life Looks Like Nine Months After Prison

Coming up on today’s show:

• The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has protected about 800,000 people brought the the U.S. illegally as children. After pledging to get a DACA fix in before the end of the year, senators now say the deal will be voted on in January. We talk to Congressman Luis Gutierrez of (D-IL) about the future of the program. 

• The race for Virginia’s House of Delegates was thought to have been won by one vote in favor of the Democratic candidate, but is now a tie. The future of the race will be “determined by lot.” Virginia Public Radio Reporter Michael Pope explains what this all means. 

• Between 9,000 and 11,000 Iraqi civilians lost their lives in the battle to liberate Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul. The rate is almost 10 times greater than previously reported. Lori Hinnant, an international security correspondent with The Associated Press, and Chris Woods, the director of Airwars, discuss the civilian deaths in Mosul.

• Today, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski will appear before Congress with 60 minutes to defend himself against impeachment. Kuczynski is charged with improperly receiving $782,000 from the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. Mitra Taj, Reuters correspondent in Lima, fills us in. 

• The economic crisis in Venezuela has led to severe malnutrition, and doctors are seeing hundreds of deaths due to starvation. But the Venezuelan government is allegedly participating in a cover up of the crisis by blacking out health statistics. We look at what the numbers really show with Mariana Zuniga, a journalist in Caracas, Venezuela.

• The European Union’s highest court has ruled that Uber should be classified like a transportation service and regulated like taxi operators. It’s a blow to the company that has long fought to be treated solely like a digital platform. We find out what this decision could mean for Uber and the gig economy worldwide from Arun Sundararajan, a professor of business at New York University.

• After 18 years in prison, Aaron Glasscock had his sentence commuted by President Obama. Takeaway Producer Dana Roberson was with him when he was released. Now, nearly a year later, we check in on Aaron to find out more about his transition to the outside world, and what his experience with the halfway house was like.

This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich