Racial-Bias Issues Plague Justice Department Early-Release Program

Racial-Bias Issues Plague Justice Department Early-Release Program NPR 14:03

Civil rights advocates say an algorithm at the heart the First Step Act, the 2018 bipartisan criminal justice reform law, should be overhauled or scrapped. Also: Kenneth Polite, a Black man who lost a sibling to gun violence is heading the Justice Department’s criminal prosecution division.

This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson.

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