This week, Governor Cuomo ordered an investigation into racial bias in New York State prisons in response to a New York Times investigation. Issa Kohler-Hausmann, associate professor of law and sociology at Yale, and Sarah Mehta, human rights researcher at the American Civil Liberties Union, talk about another criminal justice issue featured in a new ACLU report: the difficulty of getting paroled experienced by those who were convicted of serious crimes as teenagers in New York and other states.
Caller James (a former prisoner) on his parole hearing: It was very fast. They are very disconnected from what's going on in New York City.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 9, 2016
"This is a lawless body." - @Yale's Issa Kohler-Hausmann on the New York State Parole Board, in our studio with the @aclu's @sarahlmehta pic.twitter.com/rYWrdKYa1S
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 9, 2016