Voting, the Constitution and the 2020 Election
Reframing the Constitution • 20-Aug-2020
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, August 20, 2020.
Emily Bazelon on mass incarceration and how to change the prosecution system.
Bazelon is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She is the bestselling author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy and a cohost of the Slate Political Gabfest, a popular weekly podcast.
Her new book, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America’s mass incarceration crisis—and charts a way out.
This program is made possible by Richard Newman Campen Chautauqua Impressions Fund and the Donald Chace Shaw Fund.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
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