Audrey Quinn is a Brooklyn-based multimedia journalist. She specializes in health, tech and economy stories — in print, film, nonfiction comics, podcasts, and most commonly, public radio. Her investigative work has been awarded by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and The Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund and published in the New York Times. She is a teaching associate for the Transom Story Workshop and co-founder of the live radio performance event Radio Cabaret. Visit her website at www.AudreyQuinnaudio.com
In the 1980s, the world’s two largest diaper companies set out to destroy each other in a patent battle known as “the Diaper Wars.” The court battles lasted seven years and cost millions of dollars. What did we get out of it? Better diapers — and one very messy lesson in patent law.
United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of incarcerated women enter prison pregnant. What happens to the babies born in the correctional system? What happens to the children left behind, as their mothers serve out their sentences?
