Franklin Zimring interviewed by KQED Forum, August 13, 2013
“Attorney General Holder is signaling the U.S. attorneys to stop the flow of prisoners (who could go to state systems) into the federal system. The state prisons have grown about 700 percent over the period since 1974, but the federal system has actually been growing faster than that. This is the first attempt of an attorney general to push back on that growth process.”