We’ve been thoroughly trained to not have empathy for people who’ve been convicted of violent offenses—even though that could mean many things, and I believe all of us have the capacity to do violence. People have also been trained to be fearful.
At The Toast, Maya Schenwar, Editor-in-Chief of social justice news website Truthout, talks about her new book Locked Down, Locked Out, the deeply entrenched problems with the prison system, and what needs to be done to change things.