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70 Million

70 Million


70 Million

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Length:
60 episodes
Language:
English
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Podcast

Description

This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by their encounter with jails and to chronicle the progress ground-up efforts have made in diversion, bail reform, recidivism, adoption of technology and other crucial aspects of the move toward decarceration at local levels.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

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Introducing Still Paying the Price: Reparations in Real Terms

The newest narrative podcast from LWC Studios is out now! “Still Paying the Price: Repa...

3 minutes
Jul 26, 2023

What’s the Public’s Role in Upholding a Broken Criminal Justice System?

Currently, over 7 million people are under some form of carceral supervision in the Uni...

28 minutes
Dec 26, 2022

How Those Drowning in Carceral Debt Are Lining Others’ Pockets

The commercial bail bond industry is privatized, consolidated – and estimated to be wor...

44 minutes
Dec 19, 2022

Why Policing Our Schools Backfires

School resource officers are often called upon in middle and high schools to help with ...

34 minutes
Dec 12, 2022

How Jailhouse Informants Rig the Justice System

For four decades, testimony from jailhouse informants has been the source of public sca...

34 minutes
Dec 05, 2022

Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 2

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the city of Los Angeles moved thousands of unhoused peopl...

41 minutes
Nov 28, 2022

Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1

In Los Angeles, thousands of people who live outside have to navigate the insecurities ...

47 minutes
Nov 21, 2022

Grand Juries, the Black Box of Justice Reform?

Grand juries are supposed to safeguard against the government charging people with a cr...

42 minutes
Nov 14, 2022

Highway Robbery: How a Small-town Traffic Trap Became a Legal Black Hole

In Brookside, Alabama, an eager new police chief, unsuspecting motorists, and a state-m...

44 minutes
Nov 07, 2022

How Guilty Pleas Fastrack and Derail Justice

The US Constitution guarantees a right to trial to anyone accused of a crime, but less ...

40 minutes
Oct 31, 2022

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