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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
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
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
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
From the outside, Jacorey looks like the party guy - he's 16, has his own apartment and seems to be living large. But Jacorey's private desire for ...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 06:58
The US has the highest per capita incarceration rate of any country. At the Maine State Prison, inmates are being taught skills to care for their ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 07:26
- Purchases: 2
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
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
The War on Drugs has made America the world's leading jailer. Increasingly, the casualties of the drug war are speaking out.
- Added: Mar 11, 2012
- Length: 12:39
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
For students locked up in Maine's Long Creek Youth Development Center passing notes is a crime... and an art form. Jacorey investigates.
- Added: Dec 31, 2011
- Length: 08:47
- Purchases: 5
He went from illiterate street kid, to world renowned poet. But it was in prison that Jimmy Santiago Baca connected with his Native American and C...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Nov 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 1
On this edition we speak with young artists of diverse backgrounds who use their independent experiences and creative impulses to talk about race, ...
- Added: May 18, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Khalil Osiris’ “Circle of Courage” is one strategy the Booker T. Washington middle school is using to try and help students stay out of trouble and...
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 07:30
- Added: Sep 05, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
