Wanda Bertram, the Communications Strategist for the Prison Policy Initiative, talks about the broader harm of mass criminalization in our country. Incarceration rates have gone up since the 1970s; whereas the rate used to be 280 per 100,000 people in the general population, it has now grown to over 900 per 100,000 today. Why has incarceration skyrocketed during these decades? And is incarceration the answer to society's problems, or is it becoming a problem itself? Learn more in this interesting podcast.