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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.

Episode Date
ICE Chief of Staff Michael Lumpkin Speaks on the Record About Conditions Inside Detention Centers, the Treatment of LGBTQ+ Detainees, and More
Nov 04, 2024
Why Transgender Immigrants Don’t Need Allies, They Need Accomplices
Nov 04, 2024
Angel Island, and Why the U.S. Has Historically Used Islands to Isolate, Process, and Deter Immigrants
Nov 04, 2024
Mothers Seeking Asylum Face Much More Than Documentation Challenges
Nov 04, 2024
This Wyoming Lawyer Is Creating a Legal Safety Net for Asylum Seekers
Nov 04, 2024
Accusations and Denials About the Treatment of Trans Migrants in ICE Custody, Part 2
Nov 04, 2024
Accusations and Denials About the Treatment of Trans Migrants in ICE Custody, Part 1
Nov 04, 2024
Why These Afghan Women Had to Re-Learn to Be Mothers as Refugees in the US
Nov 04, 2024
Migrants Risk Their Lives During Hunger Strikes Inside ICE Detention, Part 2
Nov 04, 2024
Migrants Risk Their Lives During Hunger Strikes Inside ICE Detention, Part 1
Nov 04, 2024
70 Million Investigates: ICE x Gender
Nov 04, 2024
Introducing Still Paying the Price: Reparations in Real Terms
Jul 26, 2023
What’s the Public’s Role in Upholding a Broken Criminal Justice System?
Dec 26, 2022
How Those Drowning in Carceral Debt Are Lining Others’ Pockets
Dec 19, 2022
Why Policing Our Schools Backfires
Dec 12, 2022
How Jailhouse Informants Rig the Justice System
Dec 05, 2022
Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 2
Nov 28, 2022
Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1
Nov 21, 2022
Grand Juries, the Black Box of Justice Reform?
Nov 14, 2022
Highway Robbery: How a Small-town Traffic Trap Became a Legal Black Hole
Nov 07, 2022
How Guilty Pleas Fastrack and Derail Justice
Oct 31, 2022
They’re Running for Office to Change the Criminal (Injustice) System
Oct 24, 2022
Our Final Season Launches October 24!
Oct 17, 2022
When a State Treats Drug Addiction Like a Health Issue, Not a Crime
Nov 15, 2021
When “Bail Reform” Isn't
Nov 08, 2021
Taking Mental Health Crises Out of Police Hands
Nov 01, 2021
Forget Reform, They Want Abolition
Oct 25, 2021
An Effort to Hold Prosecutors Accountable
Oct 18, 2021
We Went Back to See How These Reforms Worked
Oct 11, 2021
Why COVID-19 Goes from Jails to Communities
Oct 04, 2021
How Black Women Are Rightfully “Taking Seats at the Table”
Sep 27, 2021
Curing “Petty, Everyday Injustice” in Cook County
Sep 20, 2021
Where Juvenile Detention Looks More Like Teens Hanging Out
Sep 13, 2021
Season 4 Launches September 13!
Aug 30, 2021
Where the COVID-19 Pandemic Might Finally Ignite Change in the Bail Bonds System
Nov 16, 2020
TRAILER: Future Hindsight!
Nov 13, 2020
Where Housing, Not Jails, Is the Answer to Homelessness
Nov 09, 2020
On Tribal Land, Banishment, Rehabilitation and Re-entry Add Up to Justice
Nov 02, 2020
Where Hep C Remains Untreated for Those in Custody
Oct 26, 2020
No Longer Waiting for Top-Down Reform
Oct 19, 2020
TRAILER: Say Their Name!
Oct 15, 2020
A Special Court Keeping Native Americans Out of Jail
Oct 12, 2020
How the Asylum Process Became Another Carceral Matrix
Oct 05, 2020
Why Detroit Might Be the True Test of Whether More Cameras Make Cities Safer
Sep 28, 2020
Voting from Jail Is a Right, and Now a Reality in Chicago
Sep 21, 2020
COVID-19 Makes Deciding Who Gets Out of Jail Urgent
Sep 14, 2020
TRAILER: Driving The Green Book!
Sep 03, 2020
Season 3 Starts Sept. 14!
Aug 31, 2020
Two Rural Counties Take Diverting Paths to Jail Reform
Sep 16, 2019
Where Texting Brings People to Court
Sep 09, 2019
A Pregnancy That Changed Texas Law, Part 2
Sep 02, 2019
A Pregnancy That Changed Texas Law, Part 1
Aug 26, 2019
Comedian Felonious Munk Stands Up for Reform
Aug 19, 2019
An Open and Shut Case, Reopened
Aug 12, 2019
The Work of Closing a Notorious Jail
Aug 05, 2019
How Bail Shackles Women of Color
Jul 29, 2019
When Disability Requires a Different Approach
Jul 22, 2019
Marching Toward Reform in New Orleans
Jul 15, 2019
Now a Peabody Award Nominee!!
Jul 08, 2019
Are Some of the Formerly Incarcerated Owed Reparations?
Oct 29, 2018
How New Orleans Could Set a New Course for Bail Reform
Oct 22, 2018
In Miami, Jailing Fewer, Treating More
Oct 15, 2018
Undocumented Immigrants Are Tethered to ICE, and Private Companies, by Ankle Monitors
Oct 08, 2018
In One State, an Opioid Crisis Led Police to Start an Angel Program
Oct 01, 2018
One State Is Disrupting the Pipeline from Foster Care to Jail
Sep 24, 2018
Putting Women Already in Jail First
Sep 17, 2018
Reform Activists and a New DA Find Common Ground
Sep 10, 2018
Veterans Courts Give Soldiers a Way Back
Sep 03, 2018
Locals Divided Between Diversion and Border Security
Aug 27, 2018
70 Million S1 Trailer
Aug 17, 2018
70 Million Podcast Teaser
May 18, 2018