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Apr 2017
23m 37s

Ep. 67: The Hole

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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Imagine a concrete room, not much bigger than a parking space. You're in there 23 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is the reality of solitary confinement at prisons across the United States. Keramet Reiter, a criminology professor at UC Irvine, says that while some inmates in solitary are dangerous, others are there because they're difficult for prisons to m ... Show More
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