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Ainez Bordeaux is a self-described Hellraiser, and she became an activist after being caught up in the criminal legal system.

When she couldn't afford her bond and without a trial,

Einez was sent to a St. Louis detention facility known as the Workhouse,

notorious for its poor living conditions.

Here how she and other advocates fought to shut it down and won on the first episode of

this special three-part series, out now.

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Here's an uncomfortable question.

What if the thing that's going to finally destroy our country once and for all is the document that created it in the

first place.

The Constitution of the United States is a brilliant political document, but it was written in the late 1700s, in a very different world than the one we currently inhabit.

It was an agrarian society, a huge percentage of the population was enslaved,

the rights of citizenry were confined to white property-owning males. Also, there were no iPhones, no deep fakes, no online

polling. And forget about podcasting. The earliest audio recordings were still a century away.

Almost everything about the way we live has completely changed,

except for how our government works and that's because even

though the Constitution can in theory be amended it has become almost impossible to

actually amend and the reasons for that inertia are

embedded in the document itself.

I'm Sean Elling and this is the gray area. Today's guest is Erwin Chimurinsky. He's the dean of the law school at

UC Berkeley and the author of a new book called No Democracy Last Forever, how the Constitution

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