The Berkley Socialist Behind Mass Incarceration (with Heather Ann Thompson)
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Robert Martinson was a radical anti-racist activist in the 1960s: He ran for mayor in Berkley as a socialist. He was arrested in Mississippi for participating in Freedom Summer. And then he authored the academic paper that became the political justification for “tough on crime” policies. He’s forgotten; can he be forgiven? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson guides us through his tragic story.
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