University Place

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

Special | 57m  | Video has closed captioning.

Alice Goffman, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, UW-Madison, documents police violence and the over-incarceration in a relatively poor African-American community in Philadelphia. Goffman focuses on the Taylor family and how they cope with the criminal justice system.

Aired: 01/23/15

Rating: TV-G

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