Prosecutors and Mass Incarceration

A man is silhouetted as he walks by enlargements of self-portraits made by a formerly incarcerated artists in Philadelphia

Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, the Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and the author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), looks at the role "tough on crime" prosecutors (and the voters who elected them) have had in creating the crisis of mass incarceration.