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A new approach is linking people with addiction to drug treatment, instead of just sending them out the door when they’re well again. Two doctors, ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 28:04
It all started out as a plan to steal some comic books, sell them and split the cash. That was before a busted lip, a heart attack, and federal pro...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 29:34
The face of homelessness is changing, in ways that are not easily addressed by any one group or agency. More people have resorted to living in th...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
A short radio documentary about the 1981 Memorial Day Flood in Austin, Texas that killed 13 people.
- Added: Sep 25, 2016
- Length: :00
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
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
The body of legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe rests in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania...but some members of his family say he should be dug up...
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 24:46
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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
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
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
We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
It’s been almost a year since former Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan -- then, his replacement -- abruptly resigned.
“It happened very quickly,...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:39
The National Rifle Association started its Women on Target program in 2000. According to their website, they’ve trained over eighty thousand women...
Bought by KUER and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 07:31
- Purchases: 2
New to California, the narrator experiences his first earthquake drill: online, and at LA's Union Station
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 02:00
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 07:12
While walking with the Israeli delegation in the 2011 NYC Pride Parade I captured reactions from the crowd and others in the march about why they a...
- Added: Jun 10, 2012
- Length: 08:32
A personal look at Traumatic Brain Injury.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, SALTcast Podcast, and KUOW
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 08:31
- Purchases: 4
Meet Kathie McClure. She's an attorney, mother of two, and the founder of health reform group Vote Healthcare. She's also the Purple Bus Lady and t...
- Added: May 12, 2009
- Length: 06:44
