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To celebrate Life of the Law’s 100th Episode, Life of the Law and the National Science Foundation brought five NSF funded scholars to the NSF Headq...
- Added: Jan 11, 2017
- Length: 01:07:16
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
This week is our first installment of a series covering the impact of prison on families. This episode focuses on Wendi Middleton, who works in the...
- Added: Nov 12, 2016
- Length: 28:22
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
All prisoners have the right to marry, but there are lots of restrictions. You can't exchange rings or request a special ceremony, there's thick gl...
Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 07:09
- Purchases: 3
Thousands of Los Angeles County prisoners are housed in Pitchess Detention center. For visitors, the journey to the jail can take all day. The clos...
Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 3
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
The San Antonio Four talk hope, faith, and waking up to freedom.
- Added: Jun 23, 2016
- Length: 29:57
We hear about systems of mutual support; where peers coping with similar struggles like HIV, mental health issues and surviving prison step into th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR
- Added: Nov 12, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
When someone is imprisoned, it doesn’t just affect the incarcerated. It affects the people left behind. Young people. Nearly three million children...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 07:33
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
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
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
Veronica Martinez is a mother in prison. While in county jail awaiting trial she gave birth to her daughter Amaya Martinez. The Bureau of Justice S...
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 24:13
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
Sit in any prison classroom or recreation room in any prison in the country and ask yourself: How many writers are in the room. How many people ar...
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 54:35
- Purchases: 2
John Lomax and his son Alan toured the South in the 1930s gathering music for the Library of Congress. Life then, and now, can be pretty tough in ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WWNO, Troy Public Radio, and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 54:18
- Purchases: 4
For D.C. youths who get caught up in the adult system, prison isn’t just an experience, it’s a journey. Because it’s not a full-fledged state, the ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 54:24
- Purchases: 1
We travel to Indianapolis, IN to explore the story of literary great Etheridge Knight, who published his first book, the soulful 1968 masterpiece ...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:09
- Purchases: 3
Writer and Latino activist Luis J. Rodriguez was born in El Paso and grew up in East L.A. We went to talk Luis Rodriguez simply because he, and hi...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 22, 2014
- Length: 11:03
- Purchases: 1
Sit in any prison classroom or recreation room and ask: How many writers are in the room? How many people are writing rhymes or poems? Carefully-fo...
- Added: Jan 18, 2014
- Length: 13:53
- Purchases: 4
The United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of inc...
Bought by KRZA, XRAY.fm, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 30, 2013
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 3
The United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of inc...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 16:11
- Purchases: 3
