Good Law | Bad Law

What are the moral implications of a broken prison system? Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Jonathan Jacobs, the Chair of the Department of Philosophy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, to talk about the prison systems in America. On today’s episode Aaron and Jonathan closely examine the impact the prison system has on people in our society and how we, as a society, view people who have been to prison. As Jonathan explains, prison is intended to be punishment; one is sent to prison as punishment for a crime. But more and more we expect prison not only to be a punishment in and of itself, but also a place where inmates are actually punished, through deprivation, through poor conditions, through lack of opportunity. In addition, society inflicts further punishment even long after an individual’s release from prison, by making it difficult for a person to find employment, denying ex-cons the right to vote, and so