5/21/2023 0 Comments Charged by Emily Bazelon![]() ![]() "That conception is that in order to be the, you have to be tough on crime," she says. So it's a systemic problem."īazelon, also a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and a fellow at Yale Law School, writes many prosecutors have "tunnel vision." They see the job as a stepping stone to higher political office, which causes them to prosecute more aggressively. "It's just that a lot of them are operating in offices where the way you get rewarded is by winning big convictions and winning long sentences. "Most people go into this work thinking they are good people with high ethical standards, trying to do the best they can," she tells Here & Now's Robin Young. ![]() Author Emily Bazelon writes America's embrace of mass incarceration may soon "come to seem nearly as shameful as slavery does now."īazelon levels several charges at those who charge people: prosecutors. imprisons people at nine times the rate of Germany. In 2016, it was about 2.2 million people, a figure cited in the new book " Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration." ![]() The number of people incarcerated in the U.S. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 4 years old. ![]() "Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration," by Emily Bazelon. ![]()
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