Scores of Incarcerated New Yorkers Sent to Solitary Confinement and Denied...
The New York State prison system utilized a faulty drug test that resulted in 1,652 incarcerated people being wrongfully punished, including with solitary confinement, longer prison terms, and ban on...
View ArticleThe Rikers Hunger Strike Continues
As the Adams administration inherits crisis conditions at Rikers, those detained at one of the island's jail facilities refused dozens of meals during the past week in protest of their living...
View ArticleA Family Grapples with Images of Death
Visuals of excruciating events can become rallying cries in national movements for accountability, justice, and change. Sometimes they even work as legal evidence and proof for the families who have...
View ArticleNo immediate federal takeover at Rikers, even as lack of bathrooms lead...
Mayor Eric Adams and the city Department of Correction will avoid a federal takeover of the dangerous Rikers Island jail complex for at least the next five months, even as new revelations arise about...
View Article[Unedited] adrienne maree brown with Krista Tippett
“What a time to be alive,” adrienne maree brown has written. “Right now we are in a fast river together — every day there are changes that seemed unimaginable until they occurred.” adrienne maree brown...
View ArticleThe Prison of Manhood Can’t Hold Shaka Senghor
He went to prison at age 19. When released, he had to learn how to be a father to two Black sons with very different life experiences. His letters to them have lessons for us all. Hear more from Shaka...
View ArticleHalf of My Parents, All of Me
Folashade Olatunde, a WNYC Radio Rookie, shares a series of open and honest audio diaries, inviting listeners on her journey to rebuild a relationship with her dad.Folashade’s dad went to prison when...
View ArticleAn Incarcerated Writer Fights Book Bans in Prisons
In a 2019 Report, PEN America revealed that book restriction policies in American prisons amounted to the nation’s largest book ban. These bans can come from prison-wide, state, or federal policies,...
View ArticleBiden's 'Cancer Moonshot' Initiative; City Agencies to Cut Budgets; Reading...
On today's show:In a speech this week, President Biden announced the next steps of his administration's so-called Cancer Moonshot initiative, which aims to prevent deaths from the disease. Sarah...
View ArticleReading Prison Letters
Having written for the New York Times Magazine about the exoneration of a prisoner who wrote her a letter about his case, staff writer Emily Bazelon, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast,...
View ArticleLocked Up: The Prison Labor That Built Business Empires
After the Civil War, a new form of slavery took hold in the US and lasted more than 60 years. Associated Press reporters Margie Mason and Robin McDowell investigate the chilling history of how Southern...
View ArticleAdnan Syed Released From Prison
The subject of Serial's first season, Adnan Syed, has been released from prison after 20 years. Sarah Koenig, host and co-creator of "Serial," joins us to discuss the news.→Serial, Season 1, Episode...
View ArticleGuest Spotlight: Ear Hustle
This week we’re featuring an episode from our fellow Radiotopia show, Ear Hustle. Ear Hustle is produced inside San Quentin State Prison, in California. The show tells stories about what life is really...
View ArticleJanuary 6 Hearing Recap; Mass Incarceration & Bail Reform; Brad Lander on...
On today's show:Claudia Grisales, NPR Congressional correspondent, recaps what was likely the final January 6 hearing by the House Select Committee, and explains where the investigation goes from...
View ArticleIncarceration of Women of Color Hearing
New York City Council Women’s Issues Committee hearing on the rate of Incarceration of women of color in New York. The recording date in the early 2000s is not clear. 87952
View ArticleChina accused of operating illegal overseas security network
Beijing has been accused of setting up a global network of overseas police stations to help pursue government targets, including in Spain. And, a rescue ship carrying about 230 migrants had been stuck...
View ArticleSpeaker Pelosi Steps Down; Rikers Island Federal Monitor; What to do About...
Coming up on today's show:This week, Nancy Pelosi announced she was stepping down from Democratic leadership just after Republicans clinched control of the House. Steve Israel, former member of...
View ArticleCrime, Panic and The Case Of The Exonerated Five
It’s been twenty years since five men who were convicted as kids in the “Central Park jogger case” were exonerated. Their story has resonance in today’s crime-panicked United States.In 1989, amid a...
View Article530- The Panopticon Effect
The “panopticon” might be the best known prison concept in the world. In the original design, all the cells are built around a central guard tower, designed to maintain order just by making prisoners...
View ArticleRuth Wilson Gilmore — “Where life is precious, life is precious.”
To say that Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a geographer, which she is, is not to convey the vast and varied ways in which she is influencing the makings of the future. She's a mentor and teacher to a new...
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