A podcast hosted by Howard Lovy, executive editor of Foreword Reviews, a magazine and website that focuses on independently published books. This episode focuses on criminal justice reform. Interviews with Alison Flowers, author of Exoneree Diaries; Marc Howard, author of Unusually Cruel: Prisons, Punishment, and the Real American Exceptionalism; Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, author of Liberating Minds: The Case for College in Prison; Joan Ross, a director at Books to Prisoners; and Anthony Papa, author of This Side of Freedom.