Flagging latest great episode from Season Three of “Drugs on the Docket” podcast
A couple of years ago, as noted in this post,the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center at The Ohio State University released all of Season One of a new podcast, “Drugs on the Docket.” All six full episodes of this first season, each running under an hour, were released at once (and are all still available YouTube and various podcast platforms, along with six bonus mini-episodes released as updates to the first season episodes). And, around this time last year, as highlighed in this post, DEPC released all of Season Two of “Drugs on the Docket” and all those episides are also still available via YouTube and various podcast platforms.
DEPC has been hard at work on Season Three of “Drugs on the Docket,” and this time around we have been releasing new episodes roughly once a month. I have been remiss in highlighting each of the episodes of Season Three as they are released, but I figure the Friday before a holiday weekend is a good time to highlight all the newer content on this podcast webpage. In particular, I wanted to highlight the fourth episode of the season, which was just released today and ought to be of particular interest to sentencing fans:
Season 3 Episode 4 – “Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration” with Rachel Barkow
In this episode, Host Hannah Miller and co-host Douglas Berman speak with NYU law professor Rachel Barkow about her latest book, Justice Abandoned. Barkow presents a powerful critique of the Supreme Court’s role in perpetuating mass incarceration by failing to enforce key constitutional protections. She offers insights into how the justice system got here — from the political climate of the late 1960s to the rise of the war on drugs — and how judicial appointments can shape the future of criminal justice reform.
Barkow is the Charles Seligson Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. She also serves as the faculty director of the Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at NYU and served as a member of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2013 to 2019.
Show notes:
- Publisher’s page for Justice Abandoned
- Publisher’s page for Rachel Barkow’s prior book, Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration
- Harmelin v. Michigan, 501 U.S. 957 (1991)
- John F. Stinneford, Rethinking Proportionality Under the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause, 97 Va. L. Rev. 899 (2011)
- Michael J. Zydney Mannheimer, Harmelin’s Faulty Originalism, 14 Nev. L.J. 522 (2014)
Check it out!