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In this episode, we hear personal stories from three women that show just how tightly woven together trauma, pain and addiction are. Also, we hear ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 32:36
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
In 2011 the Dayton Correctional Institution became the third women’s prison in Ohio, when it was changed from a 500-bed male facility to a women’s ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 59:04
Inmate Melody Williams interviews fellow prisoner Aimee Wissman about her heroin addiciton. For Aimee, who is an artist, heroin was a way to emulat...
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 04:50
Jamie is pregnant and has nowhere she can go. She finds herself at Saint Andre Home, a modern day home for unwed mothers, where she awaits her four...
- Added: Jun 15, 2014
- Length: 07:31
After serving time, finding food, a job and a place to live with a criminal record can become an almost impossible task. On this edition, Women bu...
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 28:56
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next ...
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 29:00
What happens when a women gives birth behind bars? Usually those babies are sent home with family members or put into foster care. But some prison...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Vocalo.org
- Added: Mar 30, 2011
- Length: 14:25
- Purchases: 4
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next g...
- Added: Mar 30, 2011
- Length: 29:00
In the last of our three-part series, A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support, we?ll hear from experts offering an insiders view on the continui...
- Added: May 23, 2008
- Length: 29:00
One mother's fight to save her daughter's life from a dysfunctional and inhumane health care system in California's prisons.
- Added: Apr 22, 2008
- Length: 59:00
This is the second of a three-part series, 'A Crisis of Care,' a look inside California's prison health care system. We'll hear how a state-sancti...
- Added: Mar 24, 2008
- Length: 29:00
This is the first of a three-part series, "A Crisis of Care," a look inside California's prison health care system. In this first show, "Gina's Sto...
- Added: Mar 14, 2008
- Length: 29:00
This half hour documentary examines a growing public health concern for women: pathological gambling.
Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Jan 31, 2008
- Length: 29:36
- Purchases: 2
A personal journey of an Indian born producer of a widow to look at the situation of widows in India.
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, KXOT Public Radio, and WBEZ
- Added: Oct 04, 2006
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 4
An honest look into the sex industry in Cambodia
- Added: Feb 07, 2006
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 17
Girls From Cambodia - an honest look into sex trafficking in Cambodia
- Added: Jan 10, 2006
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 9
This Peabody Award-winning documentary details the imprisonment and eventual release of 10 women who struck back against the men who violently abus...
Bought by WLRN, 90.5 WSNC, KQED, Louisville Public Media, KVNF and more
- Added: Aug 31, 2004
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 11
A one-hour documentary special intricately woven from interviews, readings and original music about how breast cancer has affected the lives of wom...
Bought by WJSU, KVSC, KWIT, KPVL, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more
- Added: Jan 21, 2004
- Length: 57:56
- Purchases: 16
