Michelle Chen is a contributing writer for The Nation. She is also a contributing editor at Dissent magazine and a contributing writer at In These Times. She is also a co-producer of “Asia Pacific Forum” on Pacifica’s WBAI and Dissent’s “Belabored” podcast, and studies history at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Changing the institutional culture of incarceration could entail a social consensus that locking people up is never the ideal way to resolve social problems.
