Prisons in Crisis

What follows is a link to last night's "On-Point Radio" show (an NPR Production) coming out of California. Whie the Chino Riot precipitated this episode, guests address similar issues in prisons across the country. Guests include: Carol Williams, legal affairs reporter for the Los Angeles Times; Kara Dansky, executive director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center; Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project; and Byron Price, professor of political science at Texas Southern University and Interim Director of the Barbara Jordan Institute for Policy Research.