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Revenge or rehabilitation? How to make prison better

The notion that prisons should rehabilitate rather than just punish is not new. Bill Keller of the Marshall Project joins us to discuss why prison systems in the U.S. got away from early ideas of reforming inmates, and why arguments that these methods are soft on crime are misguided. His book is “What’s Prison For? Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration.”