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Billion$ Behind Bars: Inside America's Prison Industry

2011-10-18T20:00:00.000-07:00

With more than 2.3 million people locked up, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. One out of 100 American adults is behind bars – while a stunning one out of 32 is on probation, parole or in prison. This reliance on mass incarceration has created a thriving prison economy. CNBC goes behind the razor wires to investigate the profits of the multi-billion dollar prison industry.

Soon to arrive on Hulu.com.

Marijuana USA

2010-12-08T21:00:00.000-08:00

Winner of a 2011 SABEW Best in Business Award for a TV Feature!

Go inside our nation's flourishing pot industry as the once demonized weed emerges out of the shadows and into the mainstream of American life. VIEW HERE

One Nation, Overweight

2010-05-18T16:29:00.000-07:00

Winner of a Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service and a SABEW Best in Business Award!

Watch what the New York Times calls "a chilling portrait of a health epidemic that endangers all Americans" -- a program on obesity that "stands out in a landscape cluttered with mixed messages and grossly distorted images of reality." VIEW HERE.

Gambling with Health Care

2009-03-20T03:41:00.000-07:00

Honored with a 2010 National Headliner Award!

A report on how families are coping with their health care options during this recession. In Nevada, a weak public health system is now even under greater strain. VIEW HERE

Power Struggle: Clean Energy and the Grid

2009-01-16T16:05:00.000-08:00

Honored with a 2010 National Headliner Award!

It may not be as easy as it seems to get more renewable energy on to the nation's aging electricity grid. NOW looks at a fight brewing in California. VIEW HERE .

Battleground Virginia

2008-10-17T20:30:00.000-07:00

For the first time in over four decades, Virginia is a battleground state. We speak to voters in this brand new swing state to learn how they will cast their ballots on November 4. VIEW HERE

A Post-Racial America?

2008-08-29T11:30:00.000-07:00

In the age of Obama, have we become a "post-racial America"? That's what conservative activist Ward Connerly argues as he spearheads a campaign to end affirmative action.VIEW HERE

Taxing the Poor

2008-04-11T20:35:00.000-07:00

Winner of an Emmy Award for Business and Financial Reporting!

All across the country, state policies have placed the heaviest tax burden on the working poor. In Alabama, grassroots activists say they're not going to take it anymore. VIEW HERE

The Latino Vote

2008-01-11T20:30:00.000-08:00

Hispanic populations are skyrocketing - especially in key battleground states in the Southwest. While hardline anti-immigration rhetoric dominated the presidential primary, Republicans found themselves struggling to keep this emerging group of voters. VIEW HERE

Mortgage Mess: Connecting the Subprime Dots

2007-11-16T20:49:00.000-08:00

Rows of boarded up houses and foreclosure signs have sprouted up in America's neighborhoods - shaking up the global economy and leaving millions of families devastated. This Emmy Award-nominated story investigates some of the system-wide corruption and greed that led to the mortgage mess. VIEW HERE

Small Loans, Big Profits at Compartamos

2007-09-21T20:57:00.000-07:00

Micro-credit has been hailed as an effective strategy for combating global poverty. But doing business with the poor can also reap enormous profits. A Mexican bank called Compartamos is caught in the controversy. VIEW HERE

The Report Card: Charter Schools in New Orleans

2007-06-22T08:38:00.000-07:00

When New Orleans' failing public school system got washed away along with the flood waters, the city embarked upon an ambitious and controversial overhaul with an emphasis on charter schools. An early report card shows a mixed record. VIEW HERE

Casualties of War

2007-05-04T20:30:00.000-07:00

Winner of a 2008 National Headliner Award.

This is the story of slain American reporter Steven Vincent and his widow, Lisa Ramaci, who is determined to bring Vincent's Iraqi translator Nour to safety in the U.S. VIEW HERE

Fields of Hunger

2007-03-09T21:30:00.000-08:00

As Congress gears up to pass a new Farm Bill, anti-poverty advocates and farmers in the developing world are pushing the U.S. to consider the tragic consequences of its enormous agricultural subsidies. VIEW HERE

The Prisoner

2006-07-28T20:30:00.000-07:00

For the first time on American television, British citizen Moazzam Begg tells his story as a former detainee held by American forces in the prisons of Bagram, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Begg makes disturbing allegations of kidnap, torture and murder. VIEW HERE

Crude Awakening

2006-06-16T20:30:00.000-07:00

Recipient of an Emmy Award Nomination in 2007.

As oil and gas companies continue to see soaring profits, this story investigates how they have avoided paying billions of dollars in royalties for drilling rights on public land and water. VIEW HERE