Here is a video from the University of Pennsylvania’s Stephanos Bibas on his new book, The Machinery of Criminal Justice , which I am currently reading for a review and can already recommend.

Bibas recently wrote for First Things on what made Chuck Colson “the most significant, and certainly the most unusual, prison reformer of the past century.” You can find his piece here .
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