The Sunday Read: 'Getting Out'
The Daily14 Jun 2020

The Sunday Read: 'Getting Out'

In this episode of The Sunday Read, one man reflects on what it was like to go to prison as a child and to attempt to become an attorney upon his release. In doing so, he asks: What is punishment in America? What is it for? And how should we think about it?

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