Dr. Christine Montross on Rethinking Incarceration in America

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 4 a.m.

Dr. Christine Montross, author of the new book \u201cWaiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration\u201d and an associate professor at Brown University, speaks with us about developing a more empathic understanding of isolation, the resilience that comes with collectively undergoing a harrowing experience, and the misconceptions that form when prison inmates are seen as \u201cother\u201d by society.