The Prison Population

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Paige Harrison, statistician at the Bureau of Statistics at the Department of Justice and author of the report on the population of the US prison system
- on her report on the number of people in the US prison system
and
Abu Qadir Al-Amin, associate director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, an organization focused on promoting balanced and humane criminal justice policies that reduce incarceration and promotes long-term public safety
and
Marc Mauer, executive director The Sentencing Project , national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration
and
David B. Muhlhausen, Ph.D., senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation focusing on criminal justice
- discuss the new report from the Department of Justice on who is in the American prison system

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