59 episodes

70 Million LWC Studios

- Society & Culture
- 4.5 • 123 Ratings

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.

- DEC 25, 2022
What’s the Public’s Role in Upholding a Broken Criminal Justice System?

What’s the Public’s Role in Upholding a Broken Criminal Justice System?
- 28 min
- DEC 18, 2022
How Those Drowning in Carceral Debt Are Lining Others’ Pockets

How Those Drowning in Carceral Debt Are Lining Others’ Pockets
- 44 min
- DEC 11, 2022
Why Policing Our Schools Backfires

Why Policing Our Schools Backfires
- 34 min
- DEC 4, 2022
How Jailhouse Informants Rig the Justice System

How Jailhouse Informants Rig the Justice System
- 34 min
- NOV 27, 2022
Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 2

Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 2
- 41 min
- NOV 20, 2022
Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1

Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1
- 47 min

4.5 out of 5

123 Ratings

I learn something with every episode

This podcast does important work by educating listeners. Highly recommended

One sided

Great reporting and information but extremely one sided. Would love to see the attention and effort put in to see the full picture on both sides of the issues so everyone can learn through different perspectives.