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"This is the spot," Marilyn Evans says, standing in the empty parking lot of the Women’s Med Center in Kettering, Ohio.
The Women's Med Center is ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 04:08
Rows of silver and pink plastic packages sit on the bathroom counter inside Bean, a Louisville coffee shop. Each package carries these words: emerg...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 1
The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 55:48
The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 59:57
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
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
Seattle is one of the only cities in the nation to have passed an ordinance formally sanctioning tent cities. A lot of that success can be chalked ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 09:13
- Purchases: 2
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
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
We all know this feeling. You're driving. Maybe you're speeding. Maybe you don't think you're doing anything wrong. All of a sudden blue lights fla...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 06, 2015
- Length: 15:48
- Purchases: 1
Ever committed a crime? Were you caught? Arrested? Maybe not. Between a quarter and a third of all adults in America were caught and arrested. Now ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 14:44
- Purchases: 2
Laws that required cops to live in the cities they patrolled were common in the early 1900’s and still exist in the United States today. However, s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 28:08
- Purchases: 1
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
The law isn’t actually written in stone. It morphs and changes with the times. What happens when laws change all of a sudden and people find themse...
- Added: Jul 14, 2015
- Length: 19:32
Bounty hunters are kind of like human bloodhounds. They’re dogged. They won’t stop until they get who they’re looking for. Frank Abramovitz is a bo...
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 20:22
When prisoners act out, they get put in solitary confinement-- the penal version of 'go to your room and think about what you've done.' But for the...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 28, 2015
- Length: 24:26
- Purchases: 1
Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered before he could stand trial for the assassination of JFK. But that hasn’t stopped people from trying to get him into...
Bought by PRX Remix, KPIK-LP, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 20:21
- Purchases: 3
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
Recreational pot has earned the state of Colorado $53 million dollars in tax revenue. All on a drug that, according to federal law is still illegal...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 23:27
- Purchases: 1
The internet is anonymous. Except for when it isn't. When someone wants to hurt you, they can find your address and other personal information and ...
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 17:03
- Purchases: 3
Hosted by Al Letson, this is a special hour from Life of the Law. We look back over some of our favorite stories from the year: the ones that
left...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 2
The Scottsboro Boys are infamous — nine black teenagers falsely accused
and convicted of raping two white women. Last year, the state of Alabama f...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 23:08
- 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
Tiny Spark takes a look at a seemingly good idea - international adoption - and explores its unintended consequences: corruption, fraud and child t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 19:35
- Purchases: 1
Argentine lawmakers are starting to scrutinize anti-union practices at retail giant Wal-Mart. Over the weekend, workers and human rights activists ...
- Added: Sep 25, 2007
- Length: 03:59
