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Prisons: An Inside Perspective
Thursday, June 15, 2006
On June 8th, the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons issued a set of recommendations on how to make correctional facilities safer and more effective. David Matlin, who taught college-level courses in a maximum-security prison for over ten years, comments on the report, and tells us what his inside perspective on incarceration taught him. Mr. Matlin is the author of Prisons: Inside the New America.
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