Prison Sentencing and 'The Real American Exceptionalism'
New York state has recently committed more funding for prison education programs, but Georgetown Professor Marc Morjé Howard says the whole nation needs to change its approach to prison sentencing and...
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In the ‘prison capital of Canada,’ a group of musicians recorded an album...
Pros and Cons, a grassroots music-making initiative that gives inmates the tools, instruments and confidence to showcase their talent, has taken old in Ontario, Canada, where restorative programs have...
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Bringing Theater Behind Bars
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Theater has the power to transport and to heal. Josie Whittlesey is trying to harness that power, but her stage isn’t on Broadway, it’s in...
View ArticleMeet the Candidate: Mayor de Blasio; Inside the Gop Tax Plan; Civil War...
Coming up on today's show: Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, talks about his re-election bid. Heather Long, former senior economics reporter at CNN and economics correspondent for The Washington...
View ArticleWhat to Do with Private Prisons
Lauren-Brooke Eisen, senior counsel in the Brennan Center's Justice Program and the author of Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press,...
View ArticleHow the U.S. Has Made it a Crime to Be Poor
Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman discusses his new book Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America. Edelman reveals how not having money has been criminalized and shines a...
View ArticleCriminalizing Poverty, James Joyce for the Stage, Psychedelic Therapy, Please...
A note from our Executive Producer: Before the show starts officially, I wanted to say something. I'm Melissa Eagan. Some of you who listen til the very end of the show might recognize my name as the...
View ArticleA Year of Bail Reform in New Jersey
Last year, New Jersey stopped requiring people accused of crimes to post a cash bail to get out of jail. Now other states are looking to the Garden State to see how the new system is working. Nancy...
View ArticleFirm With Trump Camp Ties Obtained Data on 50 Million Facebook Users
Here's what you'll find on today's show:— Late Friday, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions after a yet-to-be-released inspector general report found...
View ArticleOur Parole System is Broken. How Do We Fix It?
Every year, tens of thousands of prisoners become eligible for parole. But many officials reviewing parole applications are overworked, under-trained and rarely grant parole. Journalists Katie Rose...
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Theater of War Productions: Prometheus in Prison
Join us for a dramatic theatrical reading of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, a play that sheds light on the challenges faced by people who have been incarcerated, on probation or on parole, or who have...
View ArticleThe Nationwide Prison Strike Continues in New York
For weeks, incarcerated people at prisons across the U.S. have gone on strike. The nationwide movement was sparked by a recent deadly prison riot in South Carolina and is set to last until Sept. 9, the...
View ArticleThe Prison Strike in Context
Author and John Jay College professor Baz Dreisinger discusses the nationwide prison strike that began on August 21 and ended on September 9. Dreisinger discusses how a violent riot in a South Carolina...
View ArticleBob Woodward's Look Inside the Trump Administration, Understanding the Human...
Bob Woodward looks at the volatile nature of the Trump administration and examines what's driving the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One, and the White House...
View ArticleCity Plan To Close Rikers Moves Ahead, Faces Pushback
Members of the de Blasio administration continue to move toward the closure of the notoriously dangerous Rikers Island jail complex, calling the project "a moral imperative." But securing community...
View ArticleHow the U.S. Prison System Fails Those With Hepatitis C
People in the U.S. prison system are ten times more likely to have Hepatitis C than someone in the general population. But several lawsuits in states across the country allege that prisons and jails...
View ArticleThe Battle Against Building New Jails
Rikers Island, one of the nation’s most notorious jails, is set to close. New York City’s island complex has been infamously bad, with inhumane conditions, violence, and one of the nation’s highest...
View ArticleCan Restorative Justice Save The Internet?
As prison populations soar, advocates on both side of the spectrum agree that the law-and-order approach to criminal justice is not making us safer. On this week's On the Media, we look at restorative...
View ArticleLife After Prison
As a kid, Jonathan was good at soccer and making friends. But by the age of eighteen, he was a drug dealer facing his first serious conviction. For his third conviction, although the charges were for...
View ArticleTen Years After “The New Jim Crow”
The United States has the largest prison population in the world. But, until the publication of Michelle Alexander’s book “The New Jim Crow,” in 2010, most people didn’t use the term mass...
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