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The plan to permanently close Rikers in New York City and replace it with four borough facilities has hit roadblocks. Why is it so hard to close a ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK, WNYE and more
- Added: Aug 11, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
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
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Trump, GOP Embrace of Authoritarianism: An Ongoing Threat to US Democracy;...
Bought by WKPW
- Added: Dec 09, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
On today's program, John Carlos Frey, author of Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border, explores increased militarization at th...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 07, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Families torn apart at the border and through our prison system. Can we use this moment of public awareness to create change? Emani Davis, a long-s...
Bought by KDNK and Radio Catskill
- Added: Jul 07, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...
- Added: Jun 11, 2018
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
An innocent woman discusses re-entering her world outside of prison. She addresses the painful time spent away from her children and new possibilit...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 04:56
Justin Brooks, co-founder of the California Innocence Project, discusses the origins of this effort to free unjustly incarcerated people.
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 01:58
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
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
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
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Charges of Russian Interference in U.S. Election Adds to Fear of New Cold ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
For 22 years, Philadelphia FIGHT has hosted an entire month of free workshops, trainings, and outreach about HIV and AIDS. This year, Life of the L...
- Added: Aug 16, 2016
- Length: 01:01:58
At disciplinary hearings in prison, inmates are not guaranteed the right to an attorney. In fact, they aren’t allowed to have one at all.
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 21:22
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Rhode Island’s prisons are grappling with a dilemma. Hundreds of inmates have hepatitis C. New drugs can cure it. But they’re so expensive the depa...
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 08:39
Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Bos...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
I think there is a widespread feeling that in the face of last's years Marathon tragedy and the need to support the victims and their families, tha...
- Added: Apr 20, 2014
- Length: 02:32
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
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
- Added: Sep 05, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
