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This episode features New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, standup comedian Abby Govindan, and music from singer-songwriter Reckless Son.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: W. Kamau Bell
The episode features filmmakers W. Kamau Bell & Katie King, comedian Paul F. Tompkins, and music from Grammy Award-winning blues artist Keb' Mo'.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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The episode features filmmakers W. Kamau Bell & Katie King, comedian Paul F. Tompkins, and music from Grammy Award-winning blues artist Keb' Mo'.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Bard College, a small Private University in New York State, offers the Bard Prison Initiative, or BPI, to interested inmates who have committed ser...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
‘Yoga Behind Bars’ is an extraordinary program that seeks to offer healing and transformation in an environment where many people believe, that no ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Our work in the correctional facilities in New York City didn't stop during the pandemic. We talked with the Justice Initiatives team at BPL to hea...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 26:38
Caption: Clint Smith
This is the ninth episode of the "Live Wire House Party" series, featuring poet and scholar Clint Smith, music from Waxahatchee, and a tribute to f...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Clint Smith
This is the ninth episode of the "Live Wire House Party" series, featuring poet and scholar Clint Smith, music from Waxahatchee, and a tribute to f...

  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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On this episode of the California Innocence Project, Guy Miles shares his story about a bad identification leading to wrongful conviction -- and 18...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:59
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In the fact of the fear, confusing and despair many Americans feel after the election, one group of individuals joined together to share stories of...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Olly Mann with Shaun Attwood
Shaun Attwood survived a 9½ year sentence in America's deadliest prison.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 23:49
Caption: Arvaughn Williams: "Because of his incarceration, I have to show the world that I won't fall into this system and this cycle that traps so many people, black men like myself.", Credit: Catherine Girardeau
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
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Inside the walls of San Quentin prison there are about 5,000 men serving time -- 5,000 stories of how a man gets to prison, and what he does once h...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 06:06
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Interview with Carlos Sanchez, former County Jail Inmate. Interview conducted by Jackie Serrato for 96 Acres. Audio produced by Vocalo's Ayana Cont...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 20:35
Caption: San Quentin
We traveled to San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison, to learn about the lasting tradition of arts and spoken word in this well know...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kyes Stevens
We asked poet Kyes Steven of Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project to record a workshop for us. Take a listen. Prison Poetr...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lead Belly, Credit: Lead Belly Foundation
We take to the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana to ask folks about their connection to the criminal justice system. In the state of Louisiana, ...

Bought by WWNO and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 50:03
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Voices UnBroken, Credit: Voices UnBroken
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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With one of the highest crime rates in the country, Richmond, California, is a regular on the evening news. Zoom out to just California and that c...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
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When you look at the numbers, many long held truths about crime crumble. Like this one: who do you think is more likely to become a life-long crimi...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 25:08
Caption: Milt Lee
Reporter Nancy Kelsey speaks with multimedia producer Milt Lee about his most recent film, Video Letters from Prison.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2010
  • Length: 26:47