Jeff Smith ran for Congress, was a Democratic member of the Missouri Senate, and an all-around political “rising star”. That is, until he was charged with obstruction of justice and sentenced to a year and a day in Manchester, KY Federal Prison. Now, Smith is “reformed” and has written about his experience with the criminal justice system in his new book,�Mr. Smith Goes to Prison.

In this edition of Greta Talk, the New School Urban Policy professor�tells Greta Van Susteren about the events leading up to his�sentencing (including how his “former best friend” wore a wire in order to catch him�incriminating himself), how criminal justice reform has a long way to go, and how��there�s not a single concept you learn at Wharton that you couldn�t learn inside prison”.

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