Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison

Mar 5, 2019

Poor and black defendants have more legal rights than ever, but that didn't stop mass incarceration. Why is that? We talk about a paper by Paul Butler called "Poor People Lose: Gideon and the Critique of Rights." Plus, we answer the question that’s on everyone’s mind: how to live as an anti-natalist. And Tamler is appalled to discover David's anti-natalist leanings.

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Links:

• How to Live As an Antinatalist: 11 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow
• Suing your parents for being born has philosophical support — Quartz
• Indian man to sue parents for giving birth to him - BBC News
• Butler, P. D. (2012). Poor people lose: Gideon and the critique of rights. Yale LJ, 122, 2176.
• Butler, P. (2010). Let's get free: a hip-hop theory of justice. The New Press. Chicago
• Gideon v. Wainwright - Wikipedia