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Our collaborator at Cicero Independiente investigates active measures being taken by local government there to suppress Latinos' freedom of speech.
- Added: May 29, 2022
- Length: 20:05
After decades of economic inequality ravaged the population of mostly African-American residents, the outcome of the coronavirus outbreak was predi...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Nov 21, 2020
- Length: 20:56
- Purchases: 2
Michael Osterholm, PhD, is director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy and author of the book, Dead...
Bought by KSRQ and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: Mar 31, 2020
- Length: 15:48
- Purchases: 2
Aisha Jumaan and Mohammad Al-Nimr Expose the US involvement with Saudi Aggression
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
This week we feature an interview with Patrick, who reflects on his
experience with addiction and prison. His story is both deeply personal
and ana...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 30:10
Our focus for this episode is writing to prisoners. After some prison-related news, we speak with Lukah Revolt, who explains how she went from writ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2017
- Length: 19:53
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
We return to the topic of education within the prison system. After some prison news, we hear a statement written by someone who taught in prisons ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2017
- Length: 29:04
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 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
Honolulu Civil Beat reporter Jessica Terrell introduces the deadly events of Nov. 5, 2011 when a white off-duty federal agent shot and killed a Nat...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 36:35
- Purchases: 1
This week is our introduction to the topic of women, health, and prison. We speak with some prisoners from the Indiana Women's Prison about their e...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 29:11
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we focus on the September 9th National Prison Strike. We hear the Free Alabama Movement’s initial call for the strike, learn a bit...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 22:20
- Purchases: 1
Over 100 people have died from heroin and fentanyl-laced drug overdoses this year, in Maine. Maine’s governor says he will call in the National Gua...
- Added: Nov 21, 2015
- Length: 04:47
Some people police their yards. Some people police their streets. And some people get together to police their neighborhoods. If you've ever been p...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 10:04
During the state's largest HIV outbreak, a man conquers his addiction.
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 13:06
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
Why are so many of those killed by police young people of color? A recent ProPublica investigation found that a young black male is at twenty one t...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WRIR
- Added: Feb 14, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
When most people are on their way to sleep, San Francisco’s Homeless Outreach Team, or SF HOT, is just beginning its graveyard shift.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 07:34
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
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
What do we really know about death row in California? When we don’t know we create, we imagine.
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 2
"Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself From Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession and Shame" is a new book by counselor George N. Collins
- Added: Dec 01, 2011
- Length: 28:58
This 90-second short feature briefly explores whether the often frantic reporting on a severe weather event mirrored the reality of those who exper...
- Added: Aug 28, 2011
- Length: 01:24
