Inside America's Prison System (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Prison headlines all over now. The murderers who broke out of prison with power tools and maybe some help. The 68-year-old in Louisiana ordered out but still in after nearly 43 years in isolation. Kalief Browder, thrown into New York’s Rikers Island prison when he was 16 for three years with no trial. Beaten. Abused. Now dead by suicide. The United States has four percent of the world’s population, and 22 percent of its prisoners. Now many Americans – left, right and center – are saying enough. Saying it’s too much. This hour On Point: America’s prison addiction. / Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/06/11/prison-reform-sentencing-reform-new-york-jail-break