Life of the Law

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A podcast featuring documentary stories and investigations of people’s relationship to the law. Take a listen.

We feature a new episode every other Tuesday morning on the Panoply Network of Podcasts (from Slate). Visit our website Life of the Law for more information about our project, our team and our live storytelling events. You can email us with story pitches, suggestions, and feedback at connect@lifeofthelaw.org

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Life of the Law 
127 Pieces

A podcast offering documentary stories and investigations of people's relationship to the law.

Pieces

Life of the Law Shorts #25 - Release Day
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Curtis Penn, on his release day, takes his first walk of freedom on Chrissy Field in San Francisco., Credit: Nancy Mullane
For eighteen years, California’s three strikes law leveled harsh penalties against repeat felons: anyone with two felony convictions received 25 ye...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #25 - Release Day
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Curtis Penn takes his first walk of freedom on his release day from San Quentin, at Chrissy Field in San Francisco., Credit: Nancy Mullane
For eighteen years, California’s three strikes law leveled harsh penalties against repeat felons: anyone with two felony convictions received 25 ye...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 16:06
Life of the Law Shorts #23 - Of Prison and Pregnancy
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of inc...

Bought by KRZA, XRAY.fm, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 3
Life of the Law #24 - Hour-Long Special
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Credit: Bitchcakes
This hour-long special hosted by Al Letson features three of Life of the Law's best stories of 2013. Letson leads listeners through the virtual wor...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, NPR Illinois, WJCT, and KOSU


  • Added: Dec 27, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Life of the Law #23 - Of Prison and Pregnancy
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: A woman prisoner in a cell at the Women’s House of Detention, a women’s-only prison run by the Women’s Prison Association, in the 1940s. , Credit: Women's Prison Association
The United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of inc...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:11
  • Purchases: 3
Life of the Law #22 - A Criminal Debt
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Fees and fines in Philadelphia, Credit: Amanda Aronczyk
It’s not unusual at all to leave prison anywhere across the country owing fees, fines, or other costs to the local court. The city of Philadelphia ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 16:17
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #21 - Water Rights
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: A big thunderhead rolls in from the West toward Becky Hyde’s ranch. She says her father, also a rancher, would have called it a million dollar rain. But these days, she says, it’d be more like a billion dollar rain., Credit: Jason Albert
When a serious drought hit just months after an Oregon court awarded senior water rights to the Klamath Tribes, the tribe made a ‘call’ for water. ...

Bought by KMUZ, PRX Remix, and KALW


  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 15:59
  • Purchases: 3
Life of the Law #20 - Justices on the Move
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Early Supreme Court justices, including the Chief Justice, spent much of the year traveling as circuit judges in the federal court system., Credit: Public Domain
In the early days of the United States, Supreme Court justices did double duty, spending much of their time riding circuit as judges on lower court...

Bought by KISU, WEZU, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 12:24
  • Purchases: 3
Life of the Law #19 - Judging Steinbeck's Lennie
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Author John Steinbeck in 1962, the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature., Credit: Creative Commons
In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to execute people with mental disabilities. But the Court left it up to individual sta...

Bought by KPIK-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #14 - An Architect's Code
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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In its code of ethics, the American Institute of Architects requires members to “uphold human rights.” But what does that mean when it comes to pri...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2013
  • Length: 17:04

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Nancy Mullane (Admin)
Executive Director/Producer
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Anthony Gannon (Admin)
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Rachael Cain (Admin)
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Andrea Hendrickson