Chapter 12. Criminal Justice

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Video Clips

- For-Profit Prisons
  What’s so concerning about the emerging privatization of the prison industry?

- The House I Live In
  An interview with Eugene Jarecki, the filmmaker behind The House I Live In, a documentary about America’s failed drug war and its unequal outcomes for different groups.

- Racial Profiling
  Differing views abound about whether the NYPD’s “stop and frisk” policy encourages racial profiling.

Audio Clips

- 22 Years of Injustice?
  The Story of Tyrone Hood, released from prison via clemency in 2015 after serving 22 years for a murder he may not have committed at all.

- California’s Overcrowding Problem
  With prisoners filling up the state’s prisons to 50 to 80% more than capacity, the state is ordered to let thousands of prisoners go free. How do they do it?