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Criminal Justice System Tilted Radically Against Poor Americans, Legal Scholar Says

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Peter Edelman at WBUR (Zoë Mitchell for WBUR)
Peter Edelman at WBUR (Zoë Mitchell for WBUR)

Georgetown University law professor Peter Edelman says the criminal justice system is tilted radically against poor Americans.

Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti talks with Edelman about his book "Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America."

This segment aired on January 8, 2018.

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