The Prosecutor's Role in Mass Incarceration

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America's "crackdown on crime" has led to mass incarceration — with black Americans imprisoned out of proportion to their place in the population. We talk to the DA in Milwaukee and others about racial inequality and the role of prosecutors in the "crackdown on crime."

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Photo: Alexander C. Kafka