Crime & Politics (with Rachel Barkow)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 32.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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On this episode of Stay Tuned, "Crime & Politics," host Preet Bharara answers your questions about: -- Prosecutors’ personalities -- The Supreme Court’s decision in Flowers v. Mississippi, a capital case dealing with a prosecutor’s removal of black people from the jury pool. -- Preet also shares a letter from Steven Martin, a leading prison reform advocate and former guest on Stay Tuned, who wrote in with his thoughts on Preet and Anne’s conversation on the CAFE Insider podcast about the Justice Department’s argument that detained migrant children need not be provided soap and toothbrushes. Rachel Barkow, an expert on criminal justice, NYU Law professor, and author of Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration, joins Preet for a wide-ranging conversation that covers sentencing reform, how we measure a prosecutor’s success, clemency power, and more. [Interview begins 11 minutes into the episode] Bonus clips from the interview are available for members of the CAFE Insider community Sign up to receive free references and supplemental materials for Stay Tuned episodes, a weekly newsletter, and updates from Preet. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at [email protected], or call 699-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.9	From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tune.
0:58.9	I'm Prit Bharara. Everybody has their crime or criminal offender type of person that
1:05.2	really gets their anger up. And it's different for different people, for some people. It's
1:09.3	sex offenses, for others. It's the people who engage in financial fraud, for other people
1:14.0	it's drug dealing. But collectively, as a society in the United States, the way we tend to deal
1:19.2	with that is, well, let's give everybody long sentences for the things that make people
1:23.5	angry. And when you add all that up, you get 2.2 million people who are incarcerated in
1:27.5	the United States.
1:28.5	That's Rachel Barco. She's a professor at NYU School of Law and the faculty director of
1:33.4	the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law. She's also the author of the new book,
1:37.5	Prisoners of Politics, Breaking the Cycle of Mass and Carceration. Rachel's work is important
1:42.8	and she is one of my favorite people to help navigate this thorny topic. She also happens
1:46.5	to be a great colleague. We had a great conversation, digging into the weeds of sentencing reform,
1:51.5	pregnancy, and how a prosecutor's office should measure success. But first, let's get to
1:56.3	your questions. That's coming up. Stay tuned.
2:00.1	Hey, stay tuned listeners. It turns out that the next episode of Stay tuned drops on Thursday
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