The 13th and Criminal Justice

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 12, 2016

Nicholas Turner, president of The Vera Institute of Justice, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, and Cy Vance, Manhattan District Attorney,  talk about the new documentary “13th” from filmmaker Ava DuVernay that draws a straight line from slavery to mass incarceration.

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