The Shawshank Redemption, Cool Hand Luke & Brubaker Mythology: Hugh Hurwitz, the former Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons speaks with Richard Levick to discuss what federal prisons are really like and the challenges of prisons in the United States. Sounding at times like an ACLU attorney, he speaks frankly about what the federal system gets right and what it doesn’t, the challenges for state and local incarceration, how prisons have become the primary form of mental health service for an entire swath of the population and the hope for re-entry. Listen here
