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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: William Freeman's Shocking Revenge (1846) w/ Robin Bernstein (Part 1)
Description: It's March 11th. This day in 1846 (technically March 13th) in the town of Auburn, NY, and man by the name of William Freeman commited a series of murders that shocked the community and made them reckon we the impact of the local for-profit prison.Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Harvard's Robin Bernstein to discuss how Freeman came to commit this act, why it should be thought of as an act of awareness-raising terrorism, and the early roots of a very broken prison industrial complex.Robin's new book is called Freeman's Challenge -- it's...