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We must "dream bigger" about jails
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We must "dream bigger" about jails

Audio of my conversation with Professor Melanie Newport

Professor Melanie Newport (UConn) is the award-winning author of This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration. As Professor Newport and I discussed, much of jailing history is rooted in kind of good intentions, and she uses Chicago as a case study to illuminate how would-be jail reformers have done more harm than good over the last…

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Skipped History
Skipped History
Interviews with top historians about their latest work. Mainly educational, often funny. Conveniently, most of the jokes are about people too far underground to punch back.
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