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Civil Rights 50th Anniversary, Prisons and Mentally Ill
Season 16
Episode 42
We examine the decision facing the Supreme Court on the issue of affirmative action; look back at some of the key moments of the civil rights movement in 1963 with historian Taylor Branch; and visit a Chicago jail to look at the moral and financial costs of relying on prisons to care for the mentally ill.
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