Wrongful Conviction, with Jason Flom
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Harshness of Private Prisons
A lot of people talk about private prisons as sort of the, you know, the boogeyman. But approximately 6% of the people locked up in America are in private prisons. Private prisons are by and large more dangerous and more draconian even than the prisons that are operated by the states and the federal government because they're only there to make money. I believe what Brian Stevenson says is that no one should be judged by the worst thing they've ever done. We also have to start moving to an approach like they take in most of Western Europe where they look at it and say, well, this person's eventually going to be released.
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