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KEVIN B. SMITH has been studying and teaching state politics and policy for more than twenty years. He has authored or co-authored nine books, including Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences. Prior to life in academia, he covered state and local politics as a newspaper reporter. Smith is the Leland and Dorothy H. Olson Chair of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His new book is The Jailer's Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America.
In this episode, Professor Kevin Smith, author of The Jailer’s Reckoning, discusses his new book and the challenges of American mass incarceration. Then, Sherman Wells, the founder of U. N. T. A. M. E. D. , talks about his co...