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This week on Making Contact we're taking you to St. Louis, Missouri with the Podcast 70 Million to learn about the city's ongoing efforts to re-ima...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, and WFHB
- Added: Aug 23, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
A year ago, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize drug possession. The goal is to reverse some of the negative impacts of the War on Drugs...
Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Apr 06, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The Biden administration recently announced it's considering new measures to protect the greater sage-grouse—birds best known for their spectacular...
Bought by KRZA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Nov 22, 2021
- Length: 05:22
- Purchases: 3
There’s a place in rural St. Johns, Arizona, where teens who have encounters with officers of the law can play pool, make music, and get mentored i...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Nov 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The lack of literal human connection in prison can take its toll on inmates and their families. A grassroots bus service in Indiana transports fami...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 03:40
- Purchases: 3
The death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actively,...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 29:58
This week we share news and stories from two people who have been caught up in very different ways in the web of prison. Both Bresha Meadows and Pa...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 30:10
This week we feature an interview with Patrick, who reflects on his
experience with addiction and prison. His story is both deeply personal
and ana...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 30:10
This week, we focus on the closing of a volunteer-run dorm in the Monroe County Jail. The Addicts in Recovery, or AIR Dorm, has been a unique part ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 29:05
This week, we examine the intersections between domestic violence, along with other forms of gendered violence, the courts, and the prison system. ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 29:40
In this episode, we speak to people with experience with both homelessness and incarceration. Often, there is a cyclical relationship between these...
- Added: Mar 29, 2017
- Length: 29:50
This episode, we focus on two individuals who are working to organize support systems for communities that are directly affected or targeted by law...
- Added: Mar 02, 2017
- Length: 29:15
Our focus for this episode returns to the impact of incarceration on families. First we have a discussion between our friend Lucy and one of her fe...
- Added: Mar 02, 2017
- Length: 28:10
Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 28:19
This week’s episode is the second installment of our Families and Prison series. We speak with April, a formerly-incarcerated mother who works with...
- Added: Nov 25, 2016
- Length: 29:39
Meet LePriest Valentine, who kept winding up in the only sanctuary he could find after getting out of jail: Skid Row.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 4
Nearly one in ten children in California have a parent in the criminal justice system, but it’s hard to find numbers for individual cities. Experts...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 05:37
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty. In 2012 voters had the chance to vote to replace California’s dea...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Dec 13, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The United States imprisons more people than any other country. In California a new policy called ‘realignment’ aims to reduce the number of peopl...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:01
It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
