FIRST AIRED: 09/06/2021.
We speak to Victoria law, author of ‘Prisons make us safer’ and 20 other myths about mass incarceration', she discusses the history of mass incarceration with Democrats and Republicans competing to be tough on crime since the civil rights era, Joe Biden’s past as an architect of mass incarceration and his policies on crime moving forward, a media frenzy over crime despite the fact that violent crime has halved, the increased detaining of women, LGBTQ+ people and other minority groups, the unfairness of the bail system, the myth of black people committing more crimes than white people and much more!