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In the second episode of our series on the mass escape from the Woomera refugee detention center in Australia, Aren Aizura parses out the stakes of...
- Added: Mar 11, 2017
- Length: 28:32
In 2002, imprisoned refugees inside Australia’s Woomera immigration
prison coordinated with 2500 outside supporters who had pitched camp
outside th...
- Added: Mar 11, 2017
- Length: 29:10
In this episode, we introduce a new topic, going “off-paper.” When
prisoners finish their time and re-enter the free world, they confront a
whole h...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 28:12
In 2011 the Dayton Correctional Institution became the third women’s prison in Ohio, when it was changed from a 500-bed male facility to a women’s ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 59:04
Heroin addiction has touched towns and cities across the Northeast. In this piece, WITF's Ben Allen goes beyond the numbers to talk to a family who...
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 07:07
Priya Mirmira, age 15, spoke with 18-year-old inmates who were serving time for gun charges. She learned about their attitudes toward guns, how the...
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 03:38
In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days....
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
In the last decade in Indiana, about 130 murders were committed by teens, and 79 percent of those involved a firearm. After a Y-Presser lost her co...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 1
From: Chris Goldstein
Interviews with members of the public attending the Presidential Inauguration on Philadelphia's Independence Mall.
- Added: Jan 20, 2009
- Length: 13:50
Prisoners sentenced to death in Washington State have a choice of lethal injection or hanging.
- Added: Dec 16, 2008
- Length: 06:58
Death penalty cases are extremely complex and costly to pursue.
- Added: Dec 16, 2008
- Length: 06:41
A year in the life of Catherine "Coco" Means, as she leaves her long-time home in a Chicago public housing development and moves to her first priva...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KGNU Community Radio, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes and more
- Added: Sep 03, 2004
- Length: 27:46
- Purchases: 8
