“Prison Should Be Expensive”

My Interview with Lauren-Brooke Eisen about her Book “Inside Private Prisons”

This week on the Decarceration Nation Podcast (with Josh and Joel) I had the privilege of discussing the Private Prison industry with Lauren-Brooke Eisen who is both a senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice and the author of the book “Inside Private Prisons.”

You can hear the interview here:

Since it is Black History Month, some people wonder why we call the Podcast “Decarceration Nation” instead of “Deincarceration Nation,” the name was inspired by the following album (lecture) by Angela Davis:

I am probably (a bit) more of a moderate than Angela Davis is, but I agree with most of her thoughts on incarceration in the United States. What is probably most disappointing to me is that so many people look…