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Confronting Confinement
A new report says an increase in prison populations is responsible for rising violence behind bars. A former New York City corrections commissioner and the current commissioner compare notes on the report and how it relates to the city’s prison inmates. Plus, where to watch the World Cup.
Guest Host: Andrea Bernstein, Sr. Reporter, WNYC News
Correcting Corrections
Martin Horn, New York City Corrections commissioner
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Michael Jacobson, director of the Vera Institute of Justice
- on the new report "Confronting Confinement" critical of the U.S. prison system
» Vera Institute
(Sun) Light Reading
Adam Shatz, literary editor at The Nation magazine
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Ron Charles Book World fiction editor for the Washington Post
- on what's on people's reading lists
The States of Gay Marriage
Debra Rosenberg national correspondent, Newsweek Magazine
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William Eskridge John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale and co-
author with Darren Spedale
Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse? (Oxford University Press, 2006)
- analyzes the state of gay union heading into the 2006 campaign season
» Newsweek
» William Eskridge's Yale bio
The Cup Runneth Full
Stanley Mieses, contributing writer at Time Out New York
-on where you can watch the World Cup in New York
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