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If you have the money, getting out of jail can be straightforward. If you don't, you're going to need some help.
Bought by PRX Remix, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 3
Never before has a sitting justice on the Kansas Supreme Court not won a retention election. But as we all bear witness, 2016 is a different sort o...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 18:42
Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 20:18
Bail is supposed to allow a person accused of a crime to put some money up as a type of collateral - a promise they will return for their court dat...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 27:06
When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 30:36
There are 28 judicial emergencies on federal courts throughout the country. A judicial emergency is when there's been a vacancy on the court for to...
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 22:00
Domestic oil drilling offers private landowners the promise of riches in their own backyard. But what if you don’t want to live next door to an oil...
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 22:39
In Kansas, public schools are at the heart of a debate about how much money the state should budget for education -- a debate that comes down to a ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 32:54
All over the country, critics argue that ID laws discourage voter participation--particularly among poor and minority voters. This is particularly ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 24:44
In 2011 the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center released their Gang Threat Assessment, which listed Juggalos as a “loosely affiliated hybrid ga...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 22:45
In the U.S., juries are often seen as democracy in action. Twelve men and women are asked to hear an entire case, and ultimately, decide another pe...
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 23:13
How do you clean up 100,000 tons of air pollution? Boatloads of air filters, and some basic high school chemistry. This story takes the listener in...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
In real life, the business of jury selection is a 400 million dollar industry. So in a world of high priced jury consultants what does a jury of ou...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 24:42
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
Entrepreneurs around the world struggling to achieve success now has a support service available......
- Added: Jun 18, 2015
- Length: 01:00
Resources are pretty sparse down here in the Bootheel. No single town has every service to meet the homeless community’s needs. The apartments at S...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:24
Amateur sleuths armed with their own laptops, public information and a lot of spare time are working alone and in groups to crack criminal cases. S...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KVNF, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 24, 2015
- Length: 32:30
- Purchases: 4
Tanya Biank is the author of Army Wives, on which the hit TV series is based, and she's traveled the world with the troops as a newspaper reporter....
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: 07:10
Climate change is here affecting weather conditions and sea levels. In India it's also having a more surprising influence on the country's tigers. ...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Apr 05, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Life of the Law and Destination DIY team up to examine the legal grey area occupied by the sharing economy. How are cities grappling with these inc...
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 20:51
- Purchases: 2
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 14, 2014
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
Outspent 3 to 1 by multinational seed companies, the citizens of Jackson County, Oregon successfully campaigned to ban GMO crops.
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 07:42
Pregnancy tests? Pigeon poo? What Chicago aldermen really do
One frustrated Chicagoan wondered what her alderman’s responsible for
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 11:45
- Purchases: 1
Happy Independence Day! Tomorrow is the 237th birthday of the United States and following long-established American tradition, lots of us are going...
- Added: Jul 03, 2013
- Length: 05:02
Are you planning a summer vacation this year? Correspondent Rich Fish entertains us with a collection of classic tourist cons to make sure your mon...
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 04:56
