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Podcast: Discovering Academia
Episode: #006 - Zachary Psick: Mass Incarceration & Reversing the School to Prison Pipeline
Description: Join us for a powerful conversation with doctoral candidate Zachary Psick from the Department of Sociology at UC Davis. With a focus on the causes and consequences of crime and punishment, Zachary is an emerging voice in the fight for criminal justice reform. In this episode, Zachary shares his inspiring story of going from being incarcerated to becoming a renowned researcher and co-founder of the Underground Scholars Initiative at UC Davis.
We explore the history of mass incarceration in the United States, examining the wide-scale failures that led us to our current system. Zachary shares his insights...