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This week's show will feature interviews with Professor Naomi Murakawa of Princeton University and author of the book 'The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America" and Dr. Tony Platt, a visiting scholar at Berkeley Law School, and author of "The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency." The program takes a critical look at criminal justice reforms, particularly in the context of recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and Staten Island. It also features the poem Riot Act, April 29, 1992 by Ai and read by poet Reginald Dwayne Betts. Produced by Alexandra Cox.