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Lake Effect Weekend: Truth in Sentencing, 'Disgraced,' Ex Fabula

This weekend on Lake Effect:

Law professor Michael O’Hear talks about the literal costs of mass incarceration in Wisconsin. Then, playwright Ayad Ahktar cautions against extrapolating too much from his Pulitzer-winning play, Disgraced. Plus we have the latest episode of our storytelling series Ex Fabula.

Guests:

  • Michael O'Hear, author, Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough on Crime Era: How Judges Retained Power and Why Mass Incarceration Happened Anyway
  • Ayad Ahktar, playwright, Disgraced
  • Ex Fabula