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New Book Recounts 25-Year Campaign that Cut U.S. Youth Incarceration by 75%
Episode 332
Published 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Interview with Nell Bernstein, author of In Our Future We Are Free: The Dismantling of the Youth Prison, conducted by Scott Harris.
Nell Bernstein recounts the story of how a coalition of parents, activists and prison officials launched a successful campaign in states across the U.S. to end the prosecution of young people as adults, slashing the number of children locked in cages by a stunning 75 percent.