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It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...
- Added: Jul 14, 2023
- Length: 24:53
Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells the birth story of the book she co-edited with China Martens and Mai'a Williams, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on th...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Laguna Honda Hospital's certification is under review, and doctors say this was preventable. Part 2.
- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 28:00
During the COVID-19 pandemic, resources were diverted from HIV prevention to battle the new health threat. "Civic" talks to doctors about how that ...
- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 29:30
What happens in San Francisco if you call the authorities about a tent encampment in your neighborhood? We're told they will be offered shelter and...
- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 29:30
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
This week’s episode begins to explore the intersections of borders, documentation, and incarceration. We look at the history of U.S. immigration po...
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- Added: Dec 15, 2016
- Length: 29:11
- Purchases: 1
Our focus this week is on Red Fawn Fallis, currently detained in North Dakota after her arrest on October 27, at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservatio...
- Added: Dec 02, 2016
- Length: 28:38
This episode is the second installment exploring women within prisons. First, we get updates on struggles in Bulgaria and Turkey, hear about propos...
- Added: Nov 25, 2016
- Length: 28:43
Meet LePriest Valentine, who kept winding up in the only sanctuary he could find after getting out of jail: Skid Row.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 4
George McDonald and Harriet Karr-McDonald are the heart and soul of the Doe Fund, a non-profit organization that trains and houses homeless men in ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 29:08
Doctors Medical Center is the biggest public hospital and is closing on April 21, 2015.
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 03:46
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.
Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 3
NOTE: This piece pairs best with a companion piece called Heroin addiction robs family of son.
This traces the Emminger family's grief since they...
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- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
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
How long would your relationship last without a kiss or more than a kiss In America, only three states allow prisoners and their spouses or domesti...
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 17:48
- Purchases: 2
KGNU's Veronica Balderas Iglesias brings us the story of Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosin...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 06:44
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty. In 2012 voters had the chance to vote to replace California’s dea...
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- Added: Dec 13, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Among the leading causes of homelessness in single adults is mental illness. Study after study reiterates that up to a quarter of all those sufferi...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 07:50
- Purchases: 1
The development of Interstate 69 through Indiana is divided into six sections from the Indiana/Kentucky boarder up to Indianapolis. This week, the ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 12:13
Death penalty cases are extremely complex and costly to pursue.
- Added: Dec 16, 2008
- Length: 06:41
