Last December, on a bitterly cold afternoon, I stood inside the walled yard of Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary while I waited for a museum docent to start a tour. I stamped my feet and blew ...

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Today's guest is C.J. Ciaramella, a Reason reporter whose new cover story traces 250 years of American efforts to build a more humane prison system and the recurring failures that followed. Nick ...