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 United States–from custody to bail to probation. For our final epi...
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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.
How Those Drowning in Carceral Debt Are Lining Others’ Pockets
The commercial bail bond industry is privatized, consolidated – and estimated to be worth $2.4 billion dollars. People arrested in a state like Califo...
Why Policing Our Schools Backfires
School resource officers are often called upon in middle and high schools to help with routine discipline. But for many children, especially those wit...
How Jailhouse Informants Rig the Justice System
For four decades, testimony from jailhouse informants has been the source of public scandal in criminal cases across the U.S. Research shows juries fi...
Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 2
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the city of Los Angeles moved thousands of unhoused people into hotel rooms. The program, called Project Roomkey, was a ...
Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1
In Los Angeles, thousands of people who live outside have to navigate the insecurities caused by homelessness, the ire of housed neighbors, and the ci...
Grand Juries, the Black Box of Justice Reform?
Grand juries are supposed to safeguard against the government charging people with a crime when it lacks sufficient evidence. But because prosecutors ...
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-mandated loophole converged to create a nightmare for local resi...
How Guilty Pleas Fastrack and Derail Justice
The US Constitution guarantees a right to trial to anyone accused of a crime, but less than 3 percent of criminal defendants get a trial. Instead, the...
They’re Running for Office to Change the Criminal (Injustice) System
Weeks before the 2022 midterm elections, 70 Million creator and executive producer Juleyka Lantigua digs into the subject of criminal justice reform w...