An inmate at Rikers Island

How We Treat Our Incarcerated

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 11, 2016

Bill Moyers, managing editor for BillMoyers.com and creator the of documentary "Rikers," and Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, professor of law at New York University Law School and author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption  (Spiegel & Grau, 2015), talk about Moyers' documentary which looks at conditions on the infamous island jail through the eyes of former inmates.

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