This Is What Democracy Looks Like

#7: Mass Decarceration with Alec Karakatsanis

Episode Summary

We are joined by Civil Rights Corps founder Alec Karakatsanis to talk about his work changing the unjust criminal legal system—and the policies and strategies he believes are promising to achieve mass decarceration.

Episode Notes

We are joined by Civil Rights Corps founder Alec Karakatsanis to talk about his work helping change the unjust criminal legal system—and the policies and strategies he believes are promising to achieve mass decarceration at the state and local level.

Follow Alec on twitter here.

Get a copy of Alec's recent book, Usual Cruelty here.

Learn more about Civil Rights Corps here.

Read about the BREATHE Act here.

Learn more about the Democracy Policy Network at DemocracyPolicy.network.

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