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From KALW
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: 00:25:08
Federal surveys of unemployment and high school drop-out rates don’t take into account the growing prison population.
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
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: 00:29:01
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: 00:07:05
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: 00:29:00
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 00:06:01
- Purchases: 1
From My Life Is True
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: 00:01:53
- Purchases: 1
From My Life Is True
Reggie lived a life that led only to prison. Until his last time locked up.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
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- Length: 00:02:02
- Purchases: 1
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 Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 11, 2012
- Length: 00:14:30
- Purchases: 1
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: 00:09:50
A true story told live in London. Radcliffe lost his home, his job and his wife in 24 hours. An uplifting tale on drug addiction and redemption, fr...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 00:13:42
- Purchases: 1
Former inmates and activist Mary McAnally read "Stringtown Prison Blues" and discuss their experiences with the penal system. Full transcript of po...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Dec 23, 2011
- Length: 00:03:37
- Purchases: 1
In the late 1970's, Mary McAnally led a poetry workshop for the inmates at Stringtown Prison in Stringtown, Okla. She taught at the prison twice a ...
- Added: Dec 12, 2011
- Length: 00:10:10
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: 00:29:00
- Purchases: 1
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: 00:07:25
- Purchases: 1
I interviewed Stephanie in May 2011 about her 30 year addiction to heroin, her life as a prostitute to support her habit, committing burglaries and...
- Added: Jun 24, 2011
- Length: 00:26:34
Stephanie was born to alcoholic parents. As one of seven children where every single one of them became addicted to drugs or alcohol, Stephanie's d...
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 00:26:14
Russian classics like War & Peace and Crime & Punishment were written in another country, and in another century. But a new program is testing how...
- Added: May 04, 2011
- Length: 00:28:56
- Purchases: 2
Imagine you are serving a life sentence in jail. After 27 years, you are suddenly offered your freedom. What will you do, accept or refuse?
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 00:01:00
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: 00:09:35
- 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 Vocalo.org
- Added: Mar 30, 2011
- Length: 00:14:25
- Purchases: 1
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: 00:29:00
During the summer of 2010, producer Aengus Anderson rode his motorcycle around North America and interviewed 220 people about the hardest decisions...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Mar 11, 2011
- Length: 00:06:28
- Purchases: 1
Formerly a chaplain at Maine State Prison, Reverend Stan Moody is on a crusade to change the way we treat our criminals. Some of his parishioners ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2011
- Length: 00:07:45
- Purchases: 3
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: 00:29:00
- Purchases: 1
