70 Million

Series produced by Lantigua Williams & Co.

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70 Million documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards.

70 million Americans older than 18 have a criminal record. 70 Million documents how residents and communities are taking up the challenge of reforms, one jail--and story--at a time. We’ll travel around the country to learn about local efforts in diversion, bail reform, recidivism, and specialty courts--all with the goal of lessening the impact of jails on communities. (This podcast is made possible by a grant from the Safety and Justice Challenge at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.)


31 Pieces

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In Pima County, where Tucson is located, formerly incarcerated individuals and local government officials have joined efforts to send fewer people ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2019
  • Length: :00
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For veterans in Boston, run-ins with the law don’t always mean jail time. Thanks to Veterans Court, which helps in finding treatment for PTSD, gett...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:26
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Activists in Houston were galvanized by events in Ferguson in 2014 following the death of Michael Brown. First, they took to the streets in protest...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:34
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Oklahoma locks up women and girls at a higher rate than anywhere else in the US. Black mothers bear the burden of this crisis, which can curtail ac...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 27:23
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By age 17, over half of young people in foster care have already been convicted of a crime or spent a night in jail. After they age out, a quarter ...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:24
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In Massachusetts, Gloucester PD started an "angel program" to help people in the grip of opioid addiction get help. Instead of arresting people for...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 26:28
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A handful of companies are making millions off ankle monitors strapped to undocumented immigrants in ICE custody. The makers pitch the monitors as ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:09
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Like in much of the country, jails in Miami-Dade County double as de facto mental health facilities for people with mental health issues cycling th...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 27:04
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New Orleans could become the battleground for bail reform. The city has one of the highest per capita incarceration rates in the world. And most pe...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 30:06
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To close out season one, we invited two legal experts, Christina Swarns, President and Attorney-in-Charge of the Office of the Appellate Defender i...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:10
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In Pima County, where Tucson is located, formerly incarcerated individuals and local government officials have joined efforts to send fewer people ...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:51
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For years, to fund itself New Orleans’ criminal legal system has relied on bail, fines and fees levied on the city’s poorest. But there are signs o...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 32:51
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People with intellectual and developmental disabilities, known as I/DD, are overrepresented behind bars. One reason is that police officers, lawyer...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 26:10
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Tamiki Banks’ life was turned upside down when her husband was arrested, leaving her the sole breadwinner and caregiver to their twins. More than t...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 30:26
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Five years after Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining ...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 38:00
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At 17, Mark Denny was wrongfully convicted of a rape and robbery in Brooklyn. It took nearly 30 years for that conviction to be overturned -- and i...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 30:41
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Comedian Felonious Munk was among the 13,000 formerly incarcerated people whose voting rights Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe restored in 2018. 7...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 26:41
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Shandra Williams had experienced five miscarriages by the time she and her husband Dawayne became pregnant with their son. Then she was arrested. R...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 38:21
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Shandra Williams had experienced five miscarriages by the time she and her husband Dawayne became pregnant with their son. Then she was arrested. R...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 32:39
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Shandra Williams had experienced five miscarriages by the time she and her husband Dawayne became pregnant with their son. Then she was arrested. R...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 27:26
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