From Words to Weapons Episode 9 focuses on the parole system and mass incarceration in the United States.

Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas talk with Chicago-based journalist Ben Austen. He’s written a new book, Correction: Parole, Prison and the Possibility of Change.

Ben also is the author of High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing and the co-host of a podcast called Some of My Best Friends Are.

Links of Interest:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250758811/correction
https://www.pushkin.fm/hosts/ben-austen