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"I am a Christian, I am a mom, a wife, a homemaker, a leader, a knitter, a quilter… I’m lots of things. Accepting the label felon was really hard."
Bought by WAMC and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 07:17
- Purchases: 2
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty. In 2012 voters had the chance to vote to replace California’s dea...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Dec 13, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 09:17
Police officers and prison guards hold tremendous political sway. Their advocacy for better pay, more power, and more jobs has been a major factor ...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 29:01
The United States imprisons more people than any other country. In California a new policy called ‘realignment’ aims to reduce the number of peopl...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:01
It has been said that you can predict the prison population by looking at how many third graders perform poorly on standardized tests.
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 1
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
Venerable Aileen Barry, a Buddhist nun from Ireland and formerly of the Liberation Prison Project in Australia, talks about spirituality behin...
- Added: Mar 03, 2012
- Length: 07:05
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
Jacorey is an aspiring radio producer who's working on a degree in radio broadcasting at Southern Maine Community College. He is also incarcerated...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN, KUT, KBRP Community Radio, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 11, 2012
- Length: 14:30
- Purchases: 4
A true story told live in London. As a trader, Shaun had it all - money, cars, women - until he got into dealing drugs as well as shares. This is h...
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 09:50
He went from illiterate street kid, to world renowned poet. But it was in prison that Jimmy Santiago Baca connected with his Native American and C...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Nov 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Back in the States, life doesn't get any simpler for Matt.
- Added: Aug 30, 2011
- Length: 07:51
Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center in Syracuse, New York works with troubled youth - yet it isn't a "lock em up, throw away the key" kind of place...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Jul 21, 2011
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 1
For most women, the way their pregnancy, labor, and recuperation is handled by the correctional system has a lot to be desired. But there are some...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 30, 2011
- Length: 09:35
- Purchases: 1
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 New Hampshire Public Radio and Vocalo.org
- Added: Mar 30, 2011
- Length: 14:25
- Purchases: 2
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
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Antonio grew up in a poor family of migrant workers who followed the crops all over Texas. As a teenager he got into drugs and then turned to burgl...
- Added: Feb 04, 2011
- Length: 26:07
Terry's cell at Orleans Parish Prison became a drowning cage as the flood waters from Hurricane Katrina rose almost to the ceiling. As his drowned...
Bought by KUMD, Public Radio Remix, and WMNF
- Added: Aug 21, 2010
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 3
After years of lawsuits and public pressure, the federal government recently announced it will no longer hold families at The immigrant family imp...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 07:51
In a special collaboration between “Feet in Two Worlds,” we hear the story of an immigrant family torn apart after an immigration raid in Phoenix, ...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Oct 13, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
Tanya Ward shares her experience of recovery from the disease of addiction. In and out of jail from the age of 16, a life on the run, living on one...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: May 16, 2009
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 1
We visited the DOME project in New York City to discuss their work with young offenders and alternative ways to keep kids out of jail.
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 28:00
