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PRISON ABOLITION: Laurie Taylor talks to Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, about a new study which considers the case for ending imprisonment. Mass incarceration and its devastating impact on black communities have been widely condemned as neoslavery or \\u201cthe new Jim Crow.\\u201d Can the practice of imprisonment be reformed, or does justice require it to be ended altogether? They\\u2019re joined by Clare McGlynn, Professor of Law at Durham University, who questions 'anti carceral' approaches from a feminist perspective \\u2013 do they serve the interests of survivors of male violence against women and girls?

Producer: Jayne Egerton