The Disrupted team is welcoming the new year by choosing a couple of the episodes we loved from 2024. We have so many favorites that we couldn't reair all of them, but these are some of the ones that we wanted to listen back to. This week, producer Kevin Chang Barnum chose our interview with James Forman Jr.
The United States imprisons than any other country in the world.
And Black people bear the burdens of mass incarceration the most. In 2019, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø was one of seven states where Black people were incarcerated at over nine times the rate of white people. That’s according to an done by The Sentencing Project.
These problems aren't new, but they also aren't going away. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Yale law professor hopes the new book he co-edited, , will inspire readers to work towards change. It talks about finding solutions at every level of what he calls "the criminal system," from policing to prisons to courts.
GUEST:
- James Forman Jr.: J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale University. His book won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018. He recently co-edited .
You can learn more about the prison system in the U.S. by listening to Disrupted's interview with Reginald Dwayne Betts.
Special thanks to intern Frankie Devevo.
This episode originally aired on October 25, 2024.
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