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What’s the Public’s Role in Upholding a Broken Criminal Justice System?

What’s the Public’s Role in Upholding a Broken Criminal Justice System?

From70 Million


What’s the Public’s Role in Upholding a Broken Criminal Justice System?

From70 Million

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Dec 26, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Currently, over 7 million people are under some form of carceral supervision in the United States–from custody to bail to probation. For our final episode, 70 Million reporter Mark Betancourt moderates a conversation about the role we, the public, play in creating and sustaining the matrix of incarceration as it exists today. He’s joined by Cornell professor Peter K. Enns, author of the book Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World, and Insha Rahman, Vice President of advocacy and partnerships at the Vera Institute.Find a resource guide and annotated transcript at our website here.
Released:
Dec 26, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (60)

This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by their encounter with jails and to chronicle the progress ground-up efforts have made in diversion, bail reform, recidivism, adoption of technology and other crucial aspects of the move toward decarceration at local levels.