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	Podcast:		New Thinking, a Center for Court Innovation Podcast
	Episode:		Cages Don’t Help Us Heal
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:30:52
	Publish Date:		2021-08-10 05:30:28
	Description:		Hurt people hurt people. That’s not an excuse for harm, but it fuels much of the criminal legal system. At 19, Marlon Peterson was the unarmed lookout on a robbery where two people were killed. Peterson spent a decade behind bars. He writes about those years, and the childhood in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, that preceded them, in his new memoir, Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song. I made my own choices, Peterson says, “but I also did not choose to experience the type of things I experienced.” Full show notes
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