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Brain science should be making prisons better, not trying to prove innocence

  • Written by Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University
imageNeuroscience can help incarcerated brains.Donald Tong, CC BY

Every week, I wait for the cold steel bars to close behind me, for count to be called, and for men who have years – maybe the rest of their lives – to spend in this prison to come talk with me. I am a clinical psychologist who studies chronic antisocial behavior. My staff and...

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