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

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.”

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