Maya Schenwar, Truthout/Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better joins Thom. Apparently - it’s a crime to be poor in America? Find out why our prisons are filled with people waiting to stand trial and how its shaping urban communities. If you're poor in America - you can be held for hundreds of days in prison without conviction. So - how does this happen in a system where we uphold citizens as "innocent until proven guilty”?

Tonight Thom talks with Journalist and Media Critic, Norman Solomon, about the 3.5 year sentencing of former CIA officer, Jeffrey Sterling, for leaking information to the press. Although considered a lighter punishment than expected, Sterling’s sentencing was much tougher in comparison to Gen. David Petraeus’ probation sentencing for leaking classified national security information to his former mistress. Also tonight, Thom discusses prison reform and how the current system cheats out America’s poorest. Plus Thom looks into the growing number of Americans losing their religion and why it’s happening. And more than 40 years since the end of the Vietnam war, agent orange continues to affect Southeast Asian and Americans contaminated with the chemical. Thom explains why Republicans continue to demonize poor Americans on government assistance programs such as SNAP.

Humans set a new global benchmark in March! Find out whats happening with the climate and what we have to do about it!

Ben Cohen, The Daily Banter joins Thom. The UK is having it's closest election in a century! Who are the candidates? And what will the outcome mean for our countries' "Special Relationship?"