Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | The Recent Past of Prison Punishment
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🗓️ 20 September 2025
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Emily Bazelon talks with author and Yale professor Judith Resnik about her new book, Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy. They discuss the history of the prison system’s use of punishments like whipping, how the practice came to an end, and more.
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| 0:50.8 | Hello and welcome to GabFest Reads for the month of September. I'm Emily Bazelan. I am here with Yale Law Professor Judith Bresnik to talk about her amazing transatlantic history of punishment within prison walls. |
| 1:08.5 | The book is called impermmissible Punishments. |
| 1:12.1 | Judith, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm delighted to be here. |
| 1:14.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:15.7 | So you tell this history to ask a central question. |
| 1:21.1 | What do governments committed to equality owed to the people they detain? |
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