Inside This Place, Not of It editors Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi addressed this issue today in an interview on KALW’s Crosscurrents. Levi said, “The story of incarceration, particularly of incarceration of women in this country, is an artifact of the war on drugs. When we decided to increase the penalties for drug use, for drug sale, so astronomically, we began pouring hundreds of thousands of people in the prison system. We now in this country incarcerate more people than any other country in the world, certainly more than any other western country.”
Read the full interview here.
