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Matt The Cat presents the seldom-told story of Johnny Bragg, a prisoner serving six 99 year sentences at the Tenn State Penn when his group The Pri...
- Added: May 12, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 4
As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. On this edition, we...
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 29:00
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
FSRN recently spoke to Mumia Abu-Jamal in a rare phone interview from SEI Mahanoy Prison in Frackville, Pennsylvania.
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 09:23
While one guy tries make his mark as a man, another tries to erase the mark that represents a life of mistakes and regret, most of it spent in prison.
Bought by Aspen Public Radio and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
This segment is about the ongoing battle of women everywhere fighting for gender equality.
- Added: Jan 23, 2013
- Length: 28:00
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
Emily Hsiao finds a man on Craigslist who wants his swastika tattoo covered up. And then she goes and meets him.
**This is the clean version of th...
Bought by KCRW
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 13:13
- Purchases: 1
Emily Hsiao finds a man on Craigslist who wants his swastika tattoo covered up. And then she goes and meets him.
**This is the explicit version o...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 13:13
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
With one of the highest crime rates in the country, Richmond, California, is a regular on the evening news.
Zoom out to just California and that c...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
After decades of neglect, prison rehabilitation programs are seeing a resurgence, despite some hiccups. For California, this emphasis on rehabilita...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 2
Memories of the death house, from a man who sat with 95 condemned men on their last day on earth.
Bought by Aspen Public Radio and KFAI
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 25:02
- Purchases: 2
Since last October, realignment, known legally as AB109, has shifted the responsibility for low-level offenders from state prison to county jails. ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 08:10
In California, there are hundreds if not thousands of people practicing criminal law though they’ve never passed a bar exam. They don’t wear suits....
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 14:10
- Purchases: 1
During this program, Tami Haaland talks about her creative inspirations, her work at Montana's Women's Prison, and reads from her latest collection...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Sep 19, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
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
It’s summer in California, which means fire season is in full force – and it could be the worst one in years. The California Department of Forestry...
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 07:17
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
When you look at the numbers, many long held truths about crime crumble. Like this one: who do you think is more likely to become a life-long crimi...
- Added: Apr 05, 2012
- Length: 25:08
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
