Uploaded September 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Alan went to the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility with Dr. Kent Kiehl of the University of New Mexico. Kiehl has been scanning inmates with a mobile MRI unit to better understand the behaviors of psychopaths and the brain activity associated. Kiehl, an expert on psychopathy, tells Alan how this information could be useful when evaluating if a defendant could reoffend.

This segment was taken from episode two "Deciding Punishment," from the broadcast, "Brains on Trial with Alan Alda."

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