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Too often, the U.S. criminal justice system compels innocent people to plead guilty. It disproportionately incarcerates Black and brown Americans, often for relatively minor offenses. Meanwhile, high-level executives are rarely prosecuted or held accountable for much more serious crimes. Jed S. Rakoff, a federal trial judge and an expert on white-collar crime, examines these and other paradoxes in a new book, . He will be joined by Hernandez Stroud, counsel in the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, to discuss the shortcomings of the country’s legal system and propose paths to reform. 

This event is produced in partnership with New York University's John Brademas Center.

SPEAKERS:

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•  Senior U.S. District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; Author, 
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• , Counsel, Justice Program, Brennan Center for Justice