30 Issues: Mass Incarceration and Bail Reform

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 13, 2022

Bill Keller, former executive editor of The New York Times, founding editor-in-chief of the Marshall Project, and the author of What's Prison For? Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia Global Reports, 2022), talks about bail reform and the purpose of prisons.

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