Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges: what prisoners taught me

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and former war correspondent in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years for The New York Times. He's the author of 14 books and is the host of an Emmy-nominated weekly radio show on RT America. For more than a decade he has taught courses in drama and literature to inmates at East Jersey State Prison. His latest book Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison documents his relationship with those incarcerated students, the efforts of some in writing a play about their lives, and his belief that the criminal justice system is an abject failure.