Glenn Loury on Mass Incarceration in the United States (1/7)

Professor Glenn C. Loury, the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University, holding a B.A. in Mathematics from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives a talk about the expansion of prison systems and the 'War on Drugs' within the United States and their effects on the economy, social inequality, racial disparities, and political landscapes. Sponsored by Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Brown University EconDUG, Providence, RI, May 4, 2010. Introduction by Jared 'Panda' Moffat, Brown '13.

- For more information on and lectures by Glenn Loury, visit http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/glenn_loury/louryhomepage/

- For more information on SSDP, visit ssdp.org

- For more information on Brown EconDug, visit http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/ECONDUG/index.php

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[bamboo4tameshigiri]

And naive people still call this a free country.

[Snausagesful]

It's not a free country. It's a police state and in some places it's no better than Bosnia. The Nazis came up with this idea of social policy.

[Chuckjagermeister]

This is one Youtube video (series) everyone should watch.

[copcorona]

read Gulag. It is the story of the Soviet police state. It is very similar to the the war on drugs .