An Unintended Consequence of the Civil Rights Movement

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 24, 2017

James Forman Jr., a clinical professor of law at Yale Law School, former D.C. public defender, and the author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America  (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017), explores the incremental steps that led to the crisis of mass incarceration, including calls for law and order from the black middle class.

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