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Why Longer Prison Sentences Don’t Work

Conversations With Coleman by The Free Press

Feb 23, 202666:23Society & Culture

Is our criminal justice system broken, and can it be fixed? Jennifer Doleac is an economist, the executive vice president of criminal justice at Arnold Ventures, and the host of the Probable Causation podcast. Today she...

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Why Longer Prison Sentences Don’t Work is an episode from Conversations With Coleman by The Free Press. Is our criminal justice system broken, and can it be fixed? Jennifer Doleac is an economist, the executive vice president of criminal ju...

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Published Feb 23, 2026, 66:23 long, audio available.

Why Longer Prison Sentences Don’t Work

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