Fordham Law School Professor John Pfaff spoke with Slate about the root causes of soaring incarceration rates in America.
Having analyzed statistics on who goes to prison, why, and for how long, Pfaff has emerged with a new and provocative account of how the problem of mass incarceration came to be. If he’s right, the implications for the prison reform movement are huge and suggest the work needed to achieve real progress will be much harder than most people realize.
Read Slate‘s entire interview with Pfaff here.
