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Starting August 27, follow along as the reporters on 70 Million travel around the country to chronicle how communities are taking the challenge of criminal justice reform into their own hands, one jail at a time.

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May 18, 2018

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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.

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Locals Divided Between Diversion and Border Security: In Pima County, where Tucson is located, formerly incarcerated individuals and local government officials have joined efforts to send fewer people to jail. Meanwhile, a federal program designed to stop drug and human trafficking at the border is also sending people to jail for months over traffic violations and minor drug offenses. Reporter Jesse Alejandro Cottrell explores just how complicated it can be to reform a local criminal justice system. by 70 Million
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70 Million Podcast Teaser: Starting August 27, follow along as the reporters on 70 Million travel around the country to chronicle how communities are taking the challenge of criminal justice reform into their own hands, one jail at a time. by 70 Million
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One State Is Disrupting the Pipeline from Foster Care to Jail: By age 17, over half of young people in foster care have already been convicted of a crime or spent a night in jail. After they age out, a quarter will go to jail or get in trouble with the law within the first two years. California is determined to keep foster youth out of jail. Reporter Liza Veale profiles two young people who are making their way out of the system, and talks with policy makers and social service workers trying to redirect the foster-care-to-prison pipeline. by 70 Million
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Reform Activists and a New DA Find Common Ground: Activists in Houston were galvanized by events in Ferguson in 2014 following the death of Michael Brown. First, they took to the streets in protest. Then they started organizing. Not long after, they found a kindred spirit in the most unlikely person: a candidate for the DA office. Reporter Ruxandra Guidi chronicles how activists and reformers are succeeding in cutting the jail population, diverting drug arrests, and increasing accountability for local police. by 70 Million
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Two Rural Counties Take Diverting Paths to Jail Reform by 70 Million
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How Bail Shackles Women of Color: Tamiki Banks’ life was turned upside down when her husband was arrested, leaving her the sole breadwinner and caregiver to their twins. More than two years later, she’s still struggling, and he’s still in custody, even though he hasn’t been convicted of any crime. From Atlanta, Pamela Kirkland reports on the heavy burden women of color like Tamiki bear when a loved one is jailed. by 70 Million
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An Open and Shut Case, Reopened by 70 Million
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Undocumented Immigrants Are Tethered to ICE, and Private Companies, by Ankle Monitors: A handful of companies are making millions off ankle monitors strapped to undocumented immigrants in ICE custody. The makers pitch the monitors as an alternative to being jailed, but are they simply another form of bondage? Reporter Ryan Katz looks at what life is life while wearing one of these monitors. He untangles the complicated web of ICE, immigration bail agent companies, and the attorneys fighting them. by 70 Million
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The Work of Closing a Notorious Jail by 70 Million
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70 Million S1 Trailer: 70 million Americans older than 18 have a criminal record. 70 Million documents how residents and communities are taking up the challenge of reforms, one jail--and story--at a time. We’ll travel around the country to learn about local efforts in diversion, bail reform, recidivism, and specialty courts--all with the goal of lessening the impact of jails on communities. (This podcast is made possible by a grant from the Safety and Justice Challenge at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.) Host: Mitzi Miller Editor: Jen Chien Sound Designer: Luis Gil Associate Producer: Oluwakemi Aladesuyi Marketing Specialist: Kate Krosschell Resource Guide Writer: Amy Alexander Design Director: Kenia D. Serrette Creator & Executive Producer: Juleyka Lantigua-Williams by 70 Million
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Veterans Courts Give Soldiers a Way Back: For veterans, run-ins with the law don’t always have to mean jail time. Thanks to Veterans Court in Boston, which helps in finding treatment for PTSD, getting sober, and finding work. Reporter Heidi Shin talks to an Iraq and Afghanistan vet about his struggles with alcohol and PTSD, and his experience through the Veterans Court program. Heidi also talks to the judges, outreach specialists, and counselors about diverting veterans away from the prison pipeline. by 70 Million
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Are Some of the Formerly Incarcerated Owed Reparations?: To close out season one, we invited two legal experts, Christina Swarns, President and Attorney-in-Charge of the Office of the Appellate Defender in New York and Scott Hechinger, Senior Staff Attorney & Dir. of Policy at the Brooklyn Defender Services, to look at what it would mean for the United States to provide financial reparations for individuals who have spent most of their lives behind bars. Moderated by 70 Million’s creator and executive producer, Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, the discussion considers current and plausible pathways to bring reparations, restitution, and other types of restorative justice to the formerly incarcerated. by 70 Million
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Putting Women Already in Jail First: Oklahoma locks up women and girls at a higher rate than anywhere else in the US. Black mothers bear the burden of this crisis, which can curtail accessing public benefits and lower the chances of keeping their children. But a promising new public defender's office in Tulsa have found a way to change some women’s fates. Reporter Nissa Rhee goes inside a women’s jail for our story. by 70 Million
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In Miami, Jailing Fewer, Treating More by 70 Million
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A Pregnancy That Changed Texas Law, Part 1 by 70 Million
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How New Orleans Could Set a New Course for Bail Reform: New Orleans could become the battleground for bail reform. The city has one of the highest per capita incarceration rates in the world. And most people are there because they can’t pay their bail. The current arrangement with the local bail industry gives the impression that judges there could have a financial conflict of interest when setting bail. In this episode, Sonia Paul digs into how an ongoing lawsuit, pretrial consequences of bail, and poverty, bias, and algorithms come into play. by 70 Million
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Now a Peabody Award Nominee!! by 70 Million
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Why Detroit Might Be the True Test of Whether More Cameras Make Cities Safer by 70 Million
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Comedian Felonious Munk Stands Up for Reform by 70 Million
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In One State, an Opioid Crisis Led Police to Start an Angel Program: In Massachusetts, Gloucester PD started an "angel program" to help people in the grip of opioid addiction get help. Instead of arresting people for opioid-related crimes, police directed them to treatment programs and resources. The angel program eventually grew into PAARI, the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative. It’s now a national program. Reporter Maria Murriel visits the original program to see how it all works. by 70 Million
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Marching Toward Reform in New Orleans: For years, to fund itself New Orleans’ criminal legal system has relied on bail, fines and fees levied on the city’s poorest. But there are signs of change in the horizon, with a groundswell of community action and two landmark federal rulings in the last year. Reporter Eve Abrams takes us inside some of the big shifts happening in the Big Easy. by 70 Million
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When Disability Requires a Different Approach: People with intellectual and developmental disabilities, known as I/DD, are overrepresented behind bars. We go to Oregon, where case managers translate their needs for a system where the proper diagnosis is the difference between incarceration and freedom. by 70 Million
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COVID-19 Makes Deciding Who Gets Out of Jail Urgent by 70 Million
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Season 3 Starts Sept. 14! by 70 Million
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A Pregnancy That Changed Texas Law, Part 2 by 70 Million
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How the Asylum Process Became Another Carceral Matrix by 70 Million
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TRAILER: Say Their Name! by 70 Million
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Where Hep C Remains Untreated for Those in Custody by 70 Million
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No Longer Waiting for Top-Down Reform by 70 Million
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Voting from Jail Is a Right, and Now a Reality in Chicago by 70 Million
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How Guilty Pleas Fastrack and Derail Justice by 70 Million
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When a State Treats Drug Addiction Like a Health Issue, Not a Crime by 70 Million
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When “Bail Reform” Isn't by 70 Million
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Taking Mental Health Crises Out of Police Hands by 70 Million
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Forget Reform, They Want Abolition by 70 Million
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An Effort to Hold Prosecutors Accountable by 70 Million
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Why COVID-19 Goes from Jails to Communities by 70 Million
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How Black Women Are Rightfully “Taking Seats at the Table” by 70 Million
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Curing “Petty, Everyday Injustice” in Cook County by 70 Million
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Where Juvenile Detention Looks More Like Teens Hanging Out by 70 Million
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Season 4 Launches September 13! by 70 Million
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Where the COVID-19 Pandemic Might Finally Ignite Change in the Bail Bonds System by 70 Million
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TRAILER: Future Hindsight! by 70 Million
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Where Housing, Not Jails, Is the Answer to Homelessness by 70 Million
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On Tribal Land, Banishment, Rehabilitation and Re-entry Add Up to Justice by 70 Million
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Where Hep C Remains Untreated for Those in Custody by 70 Million
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No Longer Waiting for Top-Down Reform by 70 Million
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TRAILER: Say Their Name! by 70 Million
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