What Would a World Without Prisons Be Like?
The New Yorker Radio Hour 
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<p><span>Mass incarceration is now widely regarded as a prejudiced and deeply harmful set of policies. Bipartisan support exists for some degree of criminal-justice reform, and, in some circles, the idea of prison abolition is also gaining traction. Kai Wright, the host of the WNYC podcast “The United States of Anxiety,” spoke about the movement with Paul Butler, a law professor and former federal prosecutor who saw firsthand the damage that prosecution causes; and sujatha baliga, a MacArthur Foundation fellow </span><span>who leads the Restorative Justice Project at the nonprofit Impact Justice and a survivor of sexual violence.</span> <span>“Prison abolition doesn’t mean that everybody who’s locked up gets to come home tomorrow,” Butler explains.</span><span> Instead, activists envision a gradual process of “decarceration,” and the creation of alternative forms of justice and harm reduction. </span><span>“Abolition, to my mind, isn’t just about ending the prisons,” baliga adds. “It’s about ending binary processes which pit us as ‘us, them,’ ‘right, wrong’; somebody has to be lying, somebody’s telling the truth. That is not the way that we get to healing.”</span></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>
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