"Prison Inflicts Mass Violence": Bill Ayers Interviews Maya Schenwar

Bill Ayers @ Truthout - "The struggle to end the prison nation is not an isolated fight," writes Maya Schenwar in her newly released Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better (Berrett-Koehler). In her hands - and in a more robust context - the battle to topple the vast gulag that cages huge numbers of our fellow human beings is a fight to rethink what a good society ought to look like, and what the good life might mean.  Read more.