Long prison sentences for violent crimes have made the United States the most punitive nation in history. And it is prosecutors who secure the convictions that generate those long prison terms.
But what do prosecutors know about what happens to those they convict? What might happen if a group of prosecutors went inside the walls, and talked to prisoners about the heavy use of incarceration as a response to violence? What can they learn from each other, and what can we learn from listening in?
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