The Vera Institute of Justice has done a pretty extensive study and found that the L.A. County jail system is not only the largest jail system in the United States, it's according to their records largest jail system on earth. And together those sets of records allow me to tell the story of how Los Angeles built the largest jail systems on earth across the 20th century.
MacArthur fellow and UCLA professor, Kelly Lytle Hernández, joins Adam to explain how explictly racist policies of the past created the incarceration and immigration systems we still have today.
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