WATCH: A Free Press Debate on Crime and Punishment
(Jason Henry for The Free Press)
Michael Shellenberger and Seneca Scott vs. Kmele Foster and Lara Bazelon. You won’t want to miss this.
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The United States has a higher incarceration rate than anywhere else in the world. We are a country that locks up nearly two million people at a cost of some $80 billion a year.
Those basic facts, combined with a sense of our system’s injustices—there is still an 18-to-1 disparity in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine, disproportionately impacti…
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