All Stories by Bruce Western

Bruce Western

Bruce Western is a professor of sociology and the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy at Harvard University. He is also the director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Mass Incarceration, Visualized

In this animated interview, the sociologist Bruce Western explains the current inevitability of prison for certain demographics of young black men.
- Jackie Lay, Bruce Western, Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, and Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Sep 11, 2015
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Shoveling a Path Out of Prison

If states want to dig themselves out from the difficulties of mass incarceration, they can begin by creating employment programs for newly released inmates.
- Bruce Western and Linda Forman Naval
- Mar 1, 2015

Mass Incarceration, Visualized

Shoveling a Path Out of Prison