Recorded, February 6, 2024
Broadcast, February 11, 2024
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Most of us agree that the American prison system is broken. Recidivism is dangerously high and life for the inmates is brutal and often torturous. While there are many voices for strengthening or reforming American prisons, there are other more vociferous ones who insist that it’s time to dismantle them. That’s what we are going to talk about this month. On our next episode, we’ll explore the Black radical tradition that challenges the very legitimacy of incarceration.
Tommie Shelby is Caldwell Titcomb Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of three books, most recently, The Idea of Prison Abolition. This is also Tommie’s second appearance on our show. He joined us in July 2016 for a discussion called “How to think philosophically about black identity.”
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