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No Longer Waiting for Top-Down Reform

No Longer Waiting for Top-Down Reform

From70 Million


No Longer Waiting for Top-Down Reform

From70 Million

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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Oct 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Over the past few years, voters across the U.S.have elected prosecutors who promised to implement much-needed criminal justice reforms, from decriminalizing marijuana to ending cash bail. Journalist Ruxandra Guidi revisits her reporting on the election of a new prosecutor in Houston two years ago, and chronicles how activists, relatives of incarcerated people, and local residents are changing strategies and pushing for reform.Sign up for our newsletter today. 
Released:
Oct 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (60)

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.