On Thursday October 13, Professor Bruce Western (of Harvard and the Prison Studies Project) spoke at a Seattle Town Hall Meeting on “Punishment and Inequality in America.” The event was attended by over 600 people and was sponsored by Seattle’s Post-Prison Education Program. Professor Western outlined the crisis of mass incarceration in the United States and the impact that mass incarceration has had on inequality in America. See the video below for his full talk and the panel discussion that followed.