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    Unlocking Prison Problems

    Sep 03, 2019 2 minutes

    Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of Charged: The New Movement which follows the stories of two young people accused of serious crimes in Memphis and Brooklyn. She is also the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. We asked her to pose four questions about the future of criminal justice reform.

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