Barbara Bradley Hagerty joins us to talk about options for wrongfully convicted prisoners who don’t have access to DNA evidence.
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Rethinking The U.S. Prison System
We talk with a law school professor about why America locks up more of its citizens than any other country, a criminologist about our increased use of solitary confinement and a former inmate who’s made it her life’s work to help other incarcerated women transition back to freedom.
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One Family, Two Fates
Danielle Allen talks about trying, and ultimately failing, to save her cousin from a life of gangs, drugs, and prison.
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Rethinking The U.S. Prison System
We talk with a law school professor about why America locks up more of its citizens than any other country, a criminologist about our increased use of solitary confinement and a former inmate who’s made it her life’s work to help other incarcerated women transition back to freedom.
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What Women Need After Prison
Susan Burton joins us to talk about the impact incarceration has on people – and about the challenges of re-entering society.
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The Causes Of Mass Incarceration
John Pfaff joins us to talk about why the U.S. has such a high rate of imprisonment – and about ways to curb that population.
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The Rise Of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
Keramet Reiter joins us to talk about how solitary confinement has become more widely used, and about the effect it has on prisoners.
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A World Tour Of Prisons
This hour, we’ll talk about strategies that prisons on other continents are using to rehabilitate inmates with the author of “Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World.”
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Neglect In Prison
This hour, we’ll talk about cases of extreme medical neglect happening in prison facilities for non-American citizens with Seth Freed Wessler. His story on the topic appears in the current issue of “The Nation.”
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Incarceration Nation
This hour, we’ll talk about how a stint in prison follows convicts even after they are released with the author of A Country Called Prison: Mass Incarceration and the Making of a New Nation.
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Punishment Without Crime
We’ll talk this hour about what it takes to persevere behind bars for a crime you didn’t commit with Billy Smith and Richard Miles, two men who’ve been exonerated. We’ll also be joined by Dorothy Budd, a former prosecutor in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office who profiles Smith, Miles and others in her book, Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope.
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Wrongfully Accused
We’ll talk to Michael Morton this hour about what it was like to spend a quarter century in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, which he writes about in his memoir, Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace.
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