Punishment
Thursday, July 19 2007
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By some estimates, our country’s incarcerated population is growing three times faster than our resident population. But are our swelling jails and prisons in the public interest? Host Frank Stasio examines the political, economic and cultural forces that shape punishment policy with Rod Engen, assistant professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University; John Biewen, correspondent and producer of the American RadioWorks documentary series, “The Lock-Up Society,” and a teacher at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University; and, Bo Lozoff, director and co-founder of the Human Kindness Foundation and the Prison Ashram Project.
