Mass Incarceration

From the creation of the first penitentiaries in the 1800s, to the "tough-on-crime" prosecutors of the 1990s, how America created a culture of mass incarceration.

Episode 23 of the Throughline podcast, hosted by NPR, titled "Mass Incarceration" was published on August 15, 2019 and runs 48 minutes.

August 15, 2019 ·48m · Throughline

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The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and a disproportionate number of those prisoners are Black. What are the origins of the U.S. criminal justice system and how did racism shape it? From the creation of the first penitentiaries in the 1800s, to the "tough-on-crime" prosecutors of the 1990s, how America created a culture of mass incarceration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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