Baltimore is planning a $1bn jail construction project, the most expensive state-funded project in Maryland ever. They’re using a consent decree for terrible jail conditions as justification for building a “better” jail. We’re joined by David Fathi, the Director of the American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project, which brings challenges to conditions of confinement in prisons, jails, and other detention facilities, and works to end the policies that have given the United States the highest incarceration rate in the world. David is also involved in a more-than 30-year old lawsuit about conditions in Baltimore jails called Duvall v Hogan which is being problematically used to justify the new $1 billion jail construction plan.

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