On this episode Great Conversations, lawyer and author Stephen Bright, who grew up in Boyle County and frequently represents people facing the death penalty, discusses his book The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts with James Forman Jr., professor of law at Yale University and author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.

Great Conversations: Stephen Bright & James Forman, Jr.
KET Sunday, Dec. 10 • 2/1 pm
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The Great Conversations series is recorded at the University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forum, which is produced by Mary Moss Greenebaum and sponsored by the University of Louisville, in partnership with the Owsley Brown II Family, Bittners and LDG Development.

Great Conversations is a 2023 KET production, produced by Tom Bickel.

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