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Podcast: Talking Feds
Episode: Justice Abandoned: Rachel Barkow on the Supreme Courtâs Role in Mass Incarceration
Description: With just 5% of the worldâs population, the United States holds nearly 25% of its prisoners. In this one-on-one, NYU Law Professor Rachel Barkow joins Harry to discuss her new book Justice Abandoned, which reveals how a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions helped enable the rise of mass incarceration. From pretrial detention to stop-and-frisk, Barkow explains how the Courtâs embrace of âlaw and orderâ politics quietly gutted constitutional protectionsâand how todayâs conservative majority could, ironically, be positioned to help reverse course.
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