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A Former Prosecutor's 'Radical Thoughts' on the System Set Up to Control Black Men
August 29, 2019
This week, we鈥檙e replaying an interview from earlier this year with Paul Butler, a scholar, former prosecutor and the author of "Chokehold: Policing Black Men." When we first spoke with Paul, his book had been banned in Arizona prisons. Arizona has since lifted its ban, and incarcerated people in Arizona can now read "Chokehold" and benefit from its insightful analysis of our mass incarceration crisis. (Disclosure: At Liberty host Emerson Sykes worked on the letter that forced Arizona to lift the ban.)
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