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Brittany Friedman

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Author of Carceral Apartheid: How Lies & White Supremacists Run Our Prisons

Dr. Brittany Friedman is recognized as an innovative thinker on how people and institutions hide harmful truths. Her current work examines this in the realm of social control, and the underside of government such as prisons, courts, and treasuries. New ongoing work is examining this within interpersonal relations. She is the author of CARCERAL APARTHEID: HOW LIES AND WHITE SUPREMACISTS RUN OUR PRISONS. Friedman has written for outlets such as TIME, The Washington Post, and The Conversation, and is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, co-founder of the Captive Money Lab, and an Affiliated Scholar of the American Bar Foundation.

March 14, 2025

Gangs, Prison Guards & Lies: With Dr. Brittany Friedman

Author, Sociologist and USC associate professor Dr. Brittany Friedman joins Unsolicited Perspectives to dismantle America’s prison-industrial complex in this explosive episode. Author of “Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons”, Dr. Friedman uncovers how prisons weaponi…