Reform and Its Discontents
New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation
English - May 09, 2022 15:41 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsNon-Profit Business Government Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Nominated for a Media for a Just Society award, revisit New Thinking's conversation with activists Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar. In their book, Prison By Any Other Name, Law and Schenwar contend that much of what is packaged today as "reforms" to the criminal legal system are extending, not countering, that system's harmful effects. So what is the ultimate goal of reform of a system like the criminal legal system?
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Nominated for a Media for a Just Society award, revisit New Thinking’s conversation with activists Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar. In their book, Prison By Any Other Name, Law and Schenwar contend that much of what is packaged today as “reforms” to the criminal legal system are extending, not countering, that system’s harmful effects. So what is the ultimate goal of reform of a system like the criminal legal system?