Republicans, who have long used crime to win elections, are now determined to remove democratically elected progressive prosecutors from office. These are effectively modern day coups meant to crush reform policies that voters supported in resp

American Nightmare: Poverty to Prison Pipeline

Jun 23rd, 2022 25m 36s

A staggering percentage of those locked up in America’s mass incarceration crisis—upwards of 20%, or 200,000 folks (!!)—were homeless or in marginal housing leading up to their imprisonment. Forty percent were on welfare. Even more were jobless

Carceral Con Job: The Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform Swindle

Nov 4th, 2021 29m 30s

Beware the false messiahs of meaningful criminal justice reform, the so-called bipartisan coalition championing initiatives that purport to make a difference yet do absolutely nothing to incite true change, and in fact, further tighten the hist

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UPDATE: Federal Court Strikes Blow to Voting Rights in Florida

Sep 21st, 2020 15m 54s

A federal appeals court earlier this month affirmed a controversial Florida law requiring people with felony convictions to pay court fees in order to have their voting rights restored. With less than 50 days until the November election and wit

Death Sentence: COVID-19 Cases Are Soaring in Jails & Prisons

Aug 28th, 2020 24m 28s

The warnings were clear: COVID-19 would spread like wildfire in jails and prisons. It has. The top COVID-19 clusters across America are overwhelmingly jails and prisons, and efforts to reduce jail populations have stalled amid a surge in infect

Why We Riot

May 28th, 2020 50m 13s

Our compelling, award-winning examination of the factors that exist when overly-oppressed and tormented communities have finally had enough, and, much like the incidents that lay at the foundation of our democracy, are forced to rise up in rebe

Exonerated and Broke

Dec 24th, 2019 19m 18s

Consider this: Alan Newton served more than 20 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit before DNA analysis proved him innocent and he was exonerated. Now, had this occurred in Alabama, he would have received $50,000 for every year of wrong

Mentally Ill and Incarcerated

Dec 3rd, 2019 22m 23s

If we were to ask you to name the largest mental health facilities in the country, what would you say? We'll save you the trouble. The answer: jails. America's failure to effectively treat the mentally ill amid a mass incarceration crisis has o

Restorative Justice: Healing Instead of Incarceration

Oct 23rd, 2019 22m 43s

This episode introduces the concept of restorative justice, in which crime victims actually have a say in the punishment handed down to their offenders. So instead of universal prison time, atonement might come in the form of community service,

California: Epicenter of Mass Incarceration Reform

Jun 4th, 2019 23m 38s

Since a U.S. Supreme Court-imposed mandate in 2011, the Golden State has sought to address prison overcrowding through myriad reforms, including by moving people from state prisons to county jails, reducing prison sentences for certain crimes,

E-Carceration: Are Digital Prisons the Future?

Mar 14th, 2019 24m 27s

Tens of thousands each year, and hundreds of thousands collectively, are shackled with electronic monitors—devices that track a person’s every move. In most cases, these are attached to those on parole. In others, courts may even choose to lock

Is Prison Abolition Possible?

Dec 20th, 2018 24m 15s

Prison abolition may appear to be a radical conception, but it wasn't always that way. In fact, in the '60s and '70s, the idea of prison abolition in the United States was a very real issue being discussed among academics and politicians alike.

Abused and Alone: Prison Rape in the #MeToo Era

Nov 29th, 2018 27m 35s

In an era when women comprise the fastest-growing prison population in the U.S., those incarcerated are screaming #MeToo, too. But is anyone listening? News Beat: Social Justice Never Sounded So Good News Beat is a Morey Creative Studios produc

Law & Disorder: Progressive Prosecutors Hope to Dismantle Mass Incarceration, One County at a Time

Oct 30th, 2018 23m 47s

A new wave of progressive prosecutors hopes to reform the criminal 'injustice' system & dismantle mass incarceration by sweeping the midterm elections. News Beat: Social Justice Never Sounded So Good News Beat is a Morey Creative Studios produc

The Real Voter Fraud

Jul 3rd, 2018 34m 55s

More than 6 million Americans are barred from voting due to Jim Crow-era laws that strip citizens' voting rights following a felony conviction. Nearly all states have mechanisms in place amounting to civil death sentences for those who served t

Youth Prisons: Juvenile Detention’s Racial Disparity, Rampant Violence & Lasting Damage

Apr 30th, 2018 22m 53s

There are tens of thousands of kids incarcerated across the United States within youth prisons, which are often outdated, antiquated, and dilapidated former military prisons dating back to the Civil War. Conditions inside mirror those of adult

Money Bail: Freedom for Sale

Jan 25th, 2018 23m 38s

More than 400,000 people toil in U.S. jails annually because they can't pay bail. So why in the "Land of the Free" does freedom come at a debilitating cost? Learn how the money bail system in the United States has crushed the poor and forced po

The True Origins of the War on Drugs

Aug 9th, 2017 16m 20s

One trillion dollars. That’s how much the United States has spent in the last 40 years on the war on drugs. Currently, more than 450,000 Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses—up from 40,000 in 1980. In the federal system alone, almost half

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