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.
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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