Why Are So Many Americans Behind Bars?

15 Apr 2025 • 11 min • EN
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Benjamin Weber is a historian at the University of California, Davis. His new book is American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration.

From "The Next Big Idea Daily"

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