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Jumaane Williams & Hell Gate on Rikers: Why is it So Hard to Close a Jail?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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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 KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
What difference can a play make? Ask Angola Prison
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a pla...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Corrections in Ink
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Keri Blakinger
Oftentimes we can look at someone who is seemingly good at anything they do, and admire their talents. Perhaps envy them. Or, maybe even feel a twi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Films That Keep People Out of Prison: Complete Picture (Holiday ReAir - Week of 12/22/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What if judges could know a person more completely before sentencing them to prison? An organization called Complete Picture uses the power of film...

Bought by KWMR, WNYE, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Public Health Approach to Policing: The Newark Model
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What does it look like to adopt a public health approach to safety, policing, and economic development? In February, 2020, Laura visited Newark, N...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Putting Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Model
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Move money and power from police to communities and invest in local control. In the face of ongoing police brutality against African Americans and ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
American Decline: A Case for Optimism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Soul Fire Farm’s Leah Penniman talks with Chris Hedges, author of America: The Farewell Tour, about environmental threats, societal breakdown, and ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
All Families Belong Together: Immigration & Incarceration
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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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
Part 7: Behind Bars, Hep C Takes a Toll on Inmates, and Budgets
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Caption: Medium security prison in Cranston, RI, Credit: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
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
Law Enforcement and The Marathon
From: Stephen Provizer
Series: Cultural Curmudgeon
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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
Eight Years in Solitary Confinement Part One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses incarceration and solitary confinement from the prisoner's perspective with Steven Czifra, a 38 year old undergraduate stud...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
Our Bodies, Our Stories: Reproductive Health Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Woman in Handcuffs, Credit: Thisisbossi
Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds; others are being sterilized. Correctional institutions claim the policies are...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Michelle Alexander, Associate Law Professor at Moritz School of Law and Author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." , Credit: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
"I'm From"
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by K W Reinsch, Flickr
Carlos Vigil, from the YouthWorks program in Santa Fe, NM, wrote this poem-rap about growing up poor in New Mexico.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Michelle Alexander
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...

Bought by KVMR and KSFR


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2