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What’s Prison For? In Conversation with Bill Keller
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Thursday, October 6, 6–7 p.m. ET
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With roughly 2 million people behind bars, America’s prison system doesn’t exactly have a reputation for empathy — but could that change? Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Keller has spent years examining what is possible if prisons focus on preparing the incarcerated to be good citizens when they return to society, which the overwhelming majority will.
In his new book, What’s Prison For? Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration
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, he shows us how we can reform our prisons and why there’s a reason for cautious optimism. Rehabilitation, he argues, is not only an investment in public safety but a moral imperative.
Produced in partnership with New York University’s John Brademas Center
Speakers: Bill Keller, Founding Editor, The Marshall Project; Former Executive Editor, The New York Times; Author, What’s Prison For? Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration // Moderator: Jason D. Williamson, Executive Director, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, NYU Law
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