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This week, we cover carceral non-profits in an interview with Drs. Zhandarka Kurti, a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola Unive...
- Added: Dec 11, 2021
- Length: 29:00
It's been a year since the call to "Defund the Police" rang out through the George Floyd Protests. The idea isn't new - redistributing police funds...
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- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In a two-part series, we look at how COVID-19 has torn through prisons and how organizers are trying to push state and local governments to release...
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- Added: Mar 16, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This week takes us to Texas, where we hear from Candice Bernd, speaking at the 2nd Fight Toxic Prisons Conference, which took place earlier this mo...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 29:59
This week, we focus on the closing of a volunteer-run dorm in the Monroe County Jail. The Addicts in Recovery, or AIR Dorm, has been a unique part ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 29:05
In this episode, we speak to people with experience with both homelessness and incarceration. Often, there is a cyclical relationship between these...
- Added: Mar 29, 2017
- Length: 29:50
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, we are sharing a conversation we had with Kristian Williams, author of Our Enemies in Blue and American Methods: Torture and the Logic o...
- Added: Dec 18, 2016
- Length: 28:45
If you have the money, getting out of jail can be straightforward. If you don't, you're going to need some help.
Bought by PRX Remix, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 3
A generation of young men missed out on the HPV vaccine. Now, Side Effects Public Media's 29-year-old correspondent wonders if that’s putting him a...
- Added: Aug 22, 2016
- Length: 03:23
Dr. Michael Crane directs the World Trade Center Health program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai that treats the devastating medical ...
- Added: Dec 27, 2015
- Length: 29:01
Laws that required cops to live in the cities they patrolled were common in the early 1900’s and still exist in the United States today. However, s...
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- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 28:08
- Purchases: 1
A 29 minute weekly program of news features and interviews.
- Added: Jan 23, 2015
- Length: 29:00
A news report from Nell Abram in Tampa on Williams-Yulee v. the Florida Bar.
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 02:58
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
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
Interview with Sheri Strickland, President of NCEA, discussing concerns with education reform in 2011.
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 11:35
KSJD's Melissa Betrone talks with new Montezuma-Cortez School District Superintendent Alex Carter about his background, his views on education, and...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 22:46
Hoping to stem a high school dropout crisis, one Texas superintendent is luring many students back to school by giving them a taste of college cour...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:00
Washington D.C.'s Petworth neighborhood has been a historically black, working-class community. Now, as property values in D.C. are climbing, a wa...
Bought by WCSU-FM, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 3
Mattie Loyce is a student at Northeastern University. She showed up at Dewey Square in Boston with marching protesters from her campus. They briefl...
- Added: Nov 08, 2011
- Length: 05:57
The American Dream is that each generation will do better than the last. But the families of auto workers no longer have that expectation. As Detro...
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 06:15
"60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl and the show's executive producer, Jeffrey Fager, talk about "What Makes '60 Minutes' Tick?" on the Nov. 16...
Bought by KPIK-LP
- Added: Nov 27, 2009
- Length: 54:33
- Purchases: 1
