Mass Incarceration

An Oklahoma woman is serving 18 months in prison after being accused of failing to protect her daughter from the girl’s dad.

New York City has reduced its jail population, but those who remain are staying longer.

Josie and Clint talk with the author and journalist about race, politics, and mass incarceration.

Prisons carry enormous, perhaps impossible to measure social costs—but when assessing the system fiscally, reformers should focus on staffing salaries instead of the number of incarcerated people.

Josie and Clint talk with Elizabeth Hinton, Associate Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

With activist and scholar Danny Murillo.

With journalist Kira Lerner.

Josie and Clint talk with the artist about criminal justice reform and his #FREEAMERICA campaign.

With journalist Victoria Law.