Lock and Key
What's the Point of Prison?
With Rabbi Ari Sollish
(Recorded live at the Intown Jewish Academy on February 19, 2019)
A quick glance at the statistics suggests an uncomfortable truth: modern-day societies imprison people at a rate unparalleled, and indeed, unimaginable, in past times. Why is this so? Why do we lock people up, and what do we hope to achieve by doing so? This lesson considers and contrasts secular and Talmudic theories of criminal justice, before suggesting how to ensure a more just justice system.
