Prisons: Reform or Abolition?

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Air date: 
Mon, 06/21/2010 - 12:00am
The economic and human costs of the prison system and some reasons why we continue to bear them.

 In this conversation from their series The Left and the Law, attorney Mike Snedeker and psychologist Jan  Haaken explore the enormous economic and human costs of the prison system and some of the reasons why we continue to bear those costs.  Mike and Jan earlier discussed Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.  To hear that discussion, click here.   

 

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