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Discipline & Punish: Reckoning with the Death Penalty and Mass Incarceration in Texas and Beyond

  • Atlantic Center for Capital Representation 1315 Walnut Street, Suite 905 Philadelphia PA, 19107 United States (map)

Austin-based journalist and Insider Prize organizer Maurice Chammah (Let the Lord Sort Them), criminologist and UT-Austin visiting scholar Jonathan Reuben Miller (Halfway Home), and Atlantic Center for Capital Representation director Mark Bookman (Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays) gather to discuss a carceral system designed for people within it to fail, primitive punitive practices, and the death penalty itself: a decades-old Supreme Court ruling that once deemed it unconstitutional; the practice's resulting resurgence, especially in Texas; and its future.

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