Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Bill Keller and Lenore Anderson: The Future Of Prisons, Public Safety, and Protecting Victims Rights
Description: Does mass incarceration make our communities safer? How can we better protect victim rights? What happens inside of prisons? Those are important questions that Lenore Anderson and Bill Keller address in their new books In Their Names and What's Prison For?Anderson argues that the powerful myth that mass incarceration benefits victims obscures recognition of what most victims actually need to address their trauma. Based on her national reform advocacy work and time as the former chief of policy at the San Francisco District Attorney’s office and former director of public safety for the Oakland mayor, she o...