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Without ever knowing it, you may have driven the same routes, passed the same landmarks and used the same rest stops as today’s human trafficking n...
Bought by WRPI
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 07:26
- Purchases: 1
Why would someone fly 8,500 miles and spend $4,000 dollars to pony up to a bar in Pattaya, Thailand?
“If they go into Pattaya, it’s not because Pa...
Bought by WRPI
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 04:38
- Purchases: 1
Individuals can take heroic steps to stop human trafficking, like the cab driver in Saigon who rescued 11- and 12-year-olds enslaved in garment fac...
Bought by WRPI
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 1
Vietnam is losing its children. For years, girls and young women have been taken — kidnapped and trafficked across the border into Cambodia and so...
Bought by WRPI
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 07:38
- Purchases: 1
Phillip Martin travels to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to the home of a man whose 19-year old daughter was just rescued from a brothel in China. The ...
Bought by WRPI
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 1
On a warm night a Boston suburb saw its image altered with the arrests of individuals connected to a massage parlor. Behind the closed doors poli...
Bought by WRPI
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 06:31
- Purchases: 1
If you think slavery ended in 1865, think again. Human traffickers have picked up where Jim Crow left off.
Bought by WRPI
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 07:53
- Purchases: 1
Yesterday we brought you a story about a small town 50 miles North of Memphis. A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 1
Conversations about ideas and innovations in investigations and imprisonment, the search for justice, and the unexpected intersection of crime and ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 51:30
Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds; others are being sterilized. Correctional institutions claim the policies are...
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 29:00
An hour-long radio documentary examining sexual assault on high school-aged girls in Indiana, featuring stories of sexual assault survivors, as wel...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 53:59
The tools of forensics have moved way beyond fingerprint kits - discover why, these days, a prosecutor is as likely to wave a fMRI brain scan as a ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WNJR
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
The policy decisions we make today will have an impact on the next hundred years and beyond. It kind of makes you think, what policy decisions from...
- Added: Jan 16, 2013
- Length: 30:00
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 09:56
On this episode... two stories about crime hitting close to home. A man's evil plan takes an ironic turn and a Brooklyn dad hits the streets and la...
Bought by KOSU and Aspen Public Radio
- Added: Nov 16, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Radio Curious brings you an archived, 2-part conversation about death and forensics, with Dr. Michael Baden, the Chief Medical Examiner for the New...
- Added: Jul 04, 2012
- Length: 58:02
For death investigator Stacy Williams, bloated corpses and overdose victims are a daily occurrence. It takes a different kind of death to chill her...
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 2
- Added: May 02, 2012
- Length: 01:59
It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 29:01
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
When Alejandra fell behind on college tuition payments, she made a terrible decision. She robbed a bank.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:53
- Purchases: 1
When Vunetta moved into public housing, she discovered what people meant by "the welcoming committee."
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 02:06
Augustus was homeless, and selling drugs. Then one night, sleeping in a fast food restaurant, everything changed.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 1
Reggie lived a life that led only to prison. Until his last time locked up.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 02:02
- Purchases: 1
It’s called a gang injunction. A controversial crime tool strategy that some people say should be illegal, and others say is a necessary last reso...
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 13:36
