Quantum Conversations: With Karen Curry Parker

You Might Go to Prison with Justin Brooks

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“We’ve been doling out the same punishment for a thousand years. This concept of prisons… everything else in our society seems to evolve into a better way to do things. But we're doing the same thing we were doing a thousand years ago.  So how can it possibly be the best way to approach things?”  ­ - Justin Brooks, today’s guest and author of the new book You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent Our guests often remind us that we're no longer in a place where we can simply sit and discuss the changes we need to make. We are in dire need of a revolution. In this episode, Justin Brooks, the director and co-founder of the California Innocence Project and author of the new book You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, shares with us deep Insights into a judicial system that is dysfunctional, subjective, racist, and classist. Did you know that you can be wrongfully convicted if you look like someone else? If you have a bad lawyer? If you're not good at answering questions? If you