Prosecutors and Mass Incarceration
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 10, 2019
Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, the Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and the author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019), looks at the role "tough on crime" prosecutors (and the voters who elected them) have had in creating the crisis of mass incarceration.
