Sasha Abramsky Interview — Podcast November 25, 2013


Throwing Away the Key: Mass Incarceration As a Substitute for Effective Social Policy. Author and journalist Sasha Abramsky returns to Democratic Perspective to discuss his research on the Prison Industrial Complex. How the justice system in the United States has become a one-way ticket to oblivion for such a large proportion of the young, the poor, and the non-white, and why our incarceration rates not only undermine our self-image as the Land of the Free, but also threaten to destroy our future as a genuinely civilized society,

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