Inside America's Prisons

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

There are an estimated 300,000 mentally ill people incarcerated in state and federal prisons. On today’s Underreported, we’ll learn about the grim conditions in which many inmates are trapped. Then, baseball writer Roger Kahn shares his new memoir. And Marty Leimbach tells us about her new novel, based on her real-life autistic son. Plus, we’ll learn about a typical day in the life of a public defender in the South Bronx.

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