Dead Man Walking: An Afternoon Encounter with Capital Punishment in America
“In the early 1970s, the US rate of imprisonment was around 100 per 100,000 people. Today, the imprisonment rate is five times higher, the prison and jail population totals 2.25 million, and over 7 million people are now under some kind of criminal justice supervision once parole and probation populations are counted. The US incarceration rate is the highest in the world, far exceeding incarceration rates of the longstanding democracies of Western Europe and the historically repressive societies of South Africa and the former Soviet republics.”
Saturday, December 04, 2010, 2:00 PM
Harvard University Science Center, Hall B
One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
We’ll be talking about consequences, incarceration, and policy alternatives.