S:6 E:49 Freeman's Challenge: Unveiling the Origins of Prison for Profit with Dr. Robin Bernstein

The United States has a very complex, oft-oversimplified past. Dr. Robin Bernstein—a Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African-American Studies and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University—unravels a bit of that past in her new book Freeman's Challenge , a gripping story of murder, greed and race about a young man sentenced to five years of hard…