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Transgender Prisoners in N.J. Have New Rights After Historic Settlement with...
New Jersey is instituting new protections for transgender prisoners — including a mandate that they’re to be housed based on gender identity — as part of a historic legal settlement signed today with...
View ArticleESPN Doc 'Breakaway'
Director Rudy Valdez joins us to discuss the next installment of ESPN’s award-winning 30 for 30 series, “Breakaway,” which comes out on July 13. “Breakaway” tells the story of WNBA superstar Maya...
View ArticleConnecticut Becomes First State to Make Prison Calls Free
In June, Connecticut became the first state to make prison phone calls free. The state joins several jurisdictions across the U.S. that have taken steps to make prison and jail phone calls free,...
View ArticleFederal Monitor Poised To Oversee New Jersey's Troubled Women's Prison
The U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint Tuesday against New Jersey and its Department of Corrections, saying officials failed to protect prisoners at the state's only women's prison from being...
View ArticleCity Jails in Crisis
Vincent Schiraldi, Department of Correction commissioner, and Stanley Richards, DOC first deputy commissioner for programs and operations, talk about their efforts to combat the severe staffing crisis...
View ArticleOne Power Governor Cuomo Shied Away From: Commutations
In the days before leaving office Governor Cuomo has so far commuted 5 people's sentences, releasing them from prison before their sentences are finished. Steve Zeidman, professor and director of the...
View ArticleSummer Friday: ACLU Debate; Prison Money; Tri-State Pizza Challenge;...
On this Summer Friday, we've put together some of our favorite recent interviews, including:Nadine Strossen, professor of law at New York Law School, former president of the American Civil Liberties...
View ArticleHow Hurricane Ida is Impacting Incarcerated Youth in Louisiana
In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, incarcerated people at the New Orleans Parish Prison were left to fend for themselves as toxic water filled prison cells and deputies deserted en...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Abu Ghraib
One man’s ongoing effort to get justice for the abuse he endured at a U.S. prison in Iraq. At the start of the Iraq War in 2003, Salah Hasan Nusaif al-Ejaili was working as a journalist when the U.S....
View ArticleThe Attica Prison Uprising 50 Years Later
WNYC's Race and Justice unit is looking back at the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising. Joseph Gedeon, reporter in WNYC's Race and Justice Unit, and Emily Lang, producer at WNYC, discuss their project and...
View ArticleBrooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez on the Crisis at Rikers
New York City's prosecutors continued to send people to Rikers Island over the last few months as conditions deteriorated. Eric Gonzalez talks about what role prosecutors play in addressing the crisis...
View ArticleThe Books of Guantanamo Bay
When we think of Guantanamo Bay, some typical locations come to mind: cells, courtrooms, courtyards, common spaces, maybe even the surrounding naval base. One place that rarely makes a reporter's...
View ArticleThe Struggle to Cover Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Bay is a tricky place for a reporter. It's a high-stakes beat that touches on thorny legal and political issues, as well as fundamental questions about human rights. But the day-to-day...
View ArticleThe True Cost of Prison Phone Calls
Ashley C. Ford was just a baby when her father was sentenced to 30 years behind bars. Prison phone calls—a $1.4 billion industry in the United States—were often prohibitively expensive for her family,...
View ArticleMass Incarceration, Then and Now
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...
View ArticleA Dozen 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...
View ArticleMass Incarceration in America, Then and Now
The U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration in the world; although the country makes up about five per cent of the global population, it holds nearly a quarter of the world’s prisoners. David...
View ArticleReginald Dwayne Betts Reads from “Felon”
Reginald Dwayne Betts discovered poetry while in solitary confinement, during a prison sentence for a carjacking that he committed when he was sixteen. He was tried and sentenced as an adult, and...
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 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...
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