{"id":3105,"date":"2019-09-03T18:39:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T22:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/press.nbcnews.com\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2019-09-03T18:39:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T22:39:53","slug":"nbc-news-exclusive-lester-holt-goes-to-prison-for-justice-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2019\/09\/03\/nbc-news-exclusive-lester-holt-goes-to-prison-for-justice-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: LESTER HOLT GOES TO PRISON FOR \u201cJUSTICE FOR ALL\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Holt Spends Two Nights Embedded Inside Angola, America\u2019s Largest Maximum Security Prison, for <em>Dateline NBC\u2019s<\/em> \u201cLife Inside\u201d Airing Friday, Sept. 6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Holt also Moderates the First-Ever Televised Town Hall\nInside a Maximum Security Prison at Sing Sing; <\/strong><strong>Featuring John Legend, Former Attorney General Loretta\nLynch and Bryan Stevenson,<\/strong><strong>Airing Sunday, Sept. 8 on MSNBC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Dateline NBC\u2019s<\/span><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> \u201cLife Inside\u201d Airs Friday, Sept. 6 at 10pm ET on NBC <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lester Holt spends two nights locked up and embedded inside the\n     largest maximum security prison in America, the notorious Louisiana State\n     Penitentiary, also known as Angola, for a special one-hour <em>Dateline NBC<\/em>,\n     \u201cLife Inside.\u201d The program airs&nbsp;<a href=\"\/\/1\">Friday, Sept. 6 at 10pm ET<\/a>\/9pm CT as part of the network-wide \u201cJustice\n     for All\u201d series.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Holt reports from inside prison walls on how\n     incarcerated people live, the various issues of criminal justice reform\n     and why it has landed at the top of the national agenda. He talks with\n     many inmates, all with different backgrounds, on their journeys through\n     the justice system and the impact on their families.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>During the powerful hour, Holt follows three \u201cJuvenile\n     Lifers\u201d facing parole and learns of their fate alongside them, including\n     Henry Montgomery, whose 2016 Supreme Court case made it possible for\n     juvenile lifers nationwide to apply for parole.&nbsp;Additionally, Holt\n     sits down with Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and the broadcast also\n     features an interview with a victim\u2019s family.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Viewers also ride along with Holt as he works next to\n     inmates on the former slave plantation, which is now home to the prison\n     fields at Angola, visits rehabilitation programs and speaks with dying\n     inmates in the prison hospice ward. He even sleeps in a cell behind bars\n     to better understand what it\u2019s like from the inside and speaks with\n     correctional officers about the pressures they face.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dan Slepian is the supervising producer who was\n     embedded with Holt in Angola and is leading the \u201cJustice for All\u201d\n     initiative with him.&nbsp; Paul Ryan is the senior producer.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">****<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u201cJustice for All\u201d Town Hall Airs Sunday, Sept. 8 at 10pm ET on MSNBC<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In an\n     unprecedented television event, Lester Holt moderates the first-ever\n     televised town hall from a maximum security prison at New York\u2019s Sing Sing\n     Correctional Facility. It airs on MSNBC&nbsp;<a href=\"\/\/1\">this Sunday,\n     Sept. 8 at 10pm ET<\/a>. The one-hour town hall explores different\n     topics of the criminal justice and prison reform debate following an\n     encore of <em>Dateline NBC\u2019s<\/em> \u201cLife Inside\u201d <a href=\"\/\/2\">at 9pm ET<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Directly from Sing Sing, <a href=\"\/\/3\"><strong>John Legend<\/strong><\/a>, artist, activist and founder of FREEAMERICA,&nbsp;<strong>Loretta\n     Lynch<\/strong>, former U.S. Attorney General, and <strong>Bryan Stevenson<\/strong>, civil\n     rights attorney and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, among other\n     experts and advocates, join the conversation about the impact of\n     mass incarceration, the challenges regarding re-entry and the power of\n     rehabilitation. The United States has locked up more people than anywhere\n     in the world.&nbsp; <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The audience also includes 25 current inmates from Sing\n     Sing, the formerly incarcerated, including Matthew Charles who was the\n     first to be released under the First Step Act, policy makers, as well as\n     crime victims. Additionally, viewers will hear from rapper Meek Mill, who\n     Holt has interviewed multiple times, about his experiences through the\n     justice system and how he\u2019s trying to make an impact.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Among the many powerful moments, Holt asks Lawrence\n     Bartley, who was recently released from Sing Sing after being incarcerated\n     for 27 years, to speak directly to the incarcerated men in the audience\n     about what life is like on the outside.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>****<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a><strong>About \u201cJustice for All\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/justiceforall\">Justice\n     for All<\/a>,\u201d which began as an <em>NBC Nightly News<\/em> series, is\n     now a network-wide initiative, following the years of work that Holt and <em>Dateline\n     <\/em>producer Dan Slepian have been doing on criminal justice\n     reform.&nbsp;Holt\u2019s deep interest in the justice system dates back to his\n     years as a young reporter covering the police beat. In the past few years,\n     he has reported on several high-profile justice-related stories, among\n     them: the first interview with Meek Mill following his release from prison\n     last year, an exclusive interview with Matthew Charles, the first person\n     released under the First Step Act, and several stories on the wrongfully\n     convicted.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NBC News contact:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dana Klinghoffer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:dana.klinghoffer@nbcuni.com\">dana.klinghoffer@nbcuni.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">212-664-4088<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holt Spends Two Nights Embedded Inside Angola, America\u2019s Largest Maximum Security Prison, for Dateline NBC\u2019s \u201cLife Inside\u201d Airing Friday, Sept. 6 Holt also Moderates the First-Ever Televised Town Hall Inside a Maximum Security Prison at Sing Sing; Featuring John Legend, Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bryan Stevenson,Airing Sunday, Sept. 8 on MSNBC \u00a0Dateline NBC\u2019s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2019\/09\/03\/nbc-news-exclusive-lester-holt-goes-to-prison-for-justice-for-all\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from NBC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: LESTER HOLT GOES TO PRISON FOR \u201cJUSTICE FOR ALL\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-3105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nbc-nightly-news","tag-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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