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Unless Congress acts to save the DACA program, the last permit will expire on March 5, 2020. This week on Life of the Law… we share Luis’s story an...
- Added: Oct 25, 2017
- Length: 33:45
This week, shocking images of Syrian refugees who died in Lebanese military custody, allegedly during or after torture, have received widespread co...
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 52:56
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 March 2017, Nevada became the 36th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment-- three and a half decades after the ratification deadline expired...
- Added: Mar 23, 2017
- Length: 22:21
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
In the first episode of the Democracy in Crisis podcast, hosts Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner speak with Payam, one of the organizers of a protest ...
- Added: Feb 01, 2017
- Length: 18:11
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
For 22 years, Philadelphia FIGHT has hosted an entire month of free workshops, trainings, and outreach about HIV and AIDS. This year, Life of the L...
- Added: Aug 16, 2016
- Length: 01:01:58
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
In the mid-90’s, Dr. Mark Rosenberg was leading gun violence research at the CDC. Republican Arkansas Congressman Jay Dickey, the NRA’s so-called '...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and XRAY.fm
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 37:50
- Purchases: 3
With the release of the United Nations report on Friday, June 3, declaring internet access as a fundamental human right, the significance of buildi...
- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 11:37
One telling thing Sheriff Jim Kennedy says about the individual officers in the policing situation, “We laugh among ourselves, you can send some of...
- Added: Apr 12, 2016
- Length: 59:39
9-11- 14 WMMT Mountain News & World Report Feature
Coal mining jobs have dropped around Cleveland, VA, but when residents looked around they reali...
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 09:25
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
This morning, we welcomed back Reed Olson and Kristi Miller, two board members of the Nameless Coalition for the Homeless. The group has been worki...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 14:56
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
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...
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- Added: Oct 06, 2015
- Length: 15:48
- Purchases: 1
Ever committed a crime? Were you caught? Arrested? Maybe not. Between a quarter and a third of all adults in America were caught and arrested. Now ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 14:44
- Purchases: 2
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
