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Quoted: Margaret Williamson on Imprisoning the Poor

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“It is time to rethink the fundamental question of why we imprison people,” says Margaret Williamson, an associate professor of classics and of comparative literature, in a San Francisco Chronicle opinion piece about the American prison system.

Williamson is a Dartmouth Public Voices fellow.

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