A person places their hand on a window inside a jail as demonstrators make noise outside during an anti-police protest on January 24, 2021, in Tacoma, Wash. (David Ryder / Getty Images)
Chesa Boudin, the recently elected district attorney of San Francisco, talks about prisoners as parents—he grew up with parents in prison (David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin), and wrote about it for The Nation.
Also: Amy Wilentz reports on the huge protests in Port-au-Prince last Sunday, the biggest in decades, and asks: Why is the Biden administration following Trump when it comes to US policies in Haiti?
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