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BONUS EPISODE: A Conversation on Eugenics and the Law

by Nancy Mullane

  • March 28, 2016

Last week, we published STERILIZED, Reporter Jess Engebretson’s disturbing story of Rose Brooks and Lewis Reynolds, two of more than 60,000 men and women forcibly sterilized in the United States by doctors working in state…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP4047144030.mp3
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Sterilized

by Jess Engebretson

  • March 22, 2016

“If I could have had a family, I probably would have had two or three children.  I think about that all the time.  And sometimes I just cry because the people done me wrong. I…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP4774373402.mp3
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Revolution in a Cornfield – Part 1: A Fair Fight for a Fair Court

by Ashley Cleek

  • March 8, 2016

Kansas state legislators are locked in a balance-of-power fight with justices on the Kansas Supreme Court over how much of the state’s diminishing tax revenue to spend on educating children. “For me, there’s another decision…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP6287686420.mp3
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Harris County USA

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • February 23, 2016

“Lowest voter participation in the nation. Lowest voter registration in the nation. We dug a deep deep hole in Texas. And what we’ve gotta do is stop digging.” -Leland Beatty              Voting is a…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP2639159610.mp3
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Juggalos

by Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle

  • February 9, 2016
Photo by Jared eberhardt

Juggalos are fans of violent music called horror core rap performed by the band, Insane Clown Posse.  Fans paint their faces to look like clowns and get tattoos with the image of a man running with…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP5441446809.mp3
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UnDACAmented

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • January 26, 2016

“And they just told me to sign here and here. Well I signed. And I guess I signed for my deportation.” – Luis Luis crossed the border into the US when he was 8 years…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP8577803327.mp3
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Overruled

by Ashley Cleek

  • January 12, 2016

In the United States, juries are often seen as democracy in action. Twelve men and women are asked to hear an entire case, and ultimately, decide another person’s fate. But in Alabama, in capital murder…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP7923880463.mp3
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A whole ‘nother world… Live @ San Quentin

by Nancy Mullane

  • December 25, 2015

On Saturday night, Dec 5, 2015 more than 200 people filled the pews of the Catholic chapel inside San Quentin State Prison for a first-ever uncensored storytelling event behind the prison walls. Together, inmates and…

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Outside the Walls

by Troy Williams

  • December 15, 2015

“I didn’t go to prison because I was a saint. I went to prison because of my lifestyle. Since the age of 13 I was a gangbanger, and did what gangbangers do. I’m 49 years…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP1991279868.mp3
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Space Law 2.0

by Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle

  • November 24, 2015

Imagine it’s 1957. It’s the middle of the Cold War and fear is everywhere. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s just spent years accusing people of being communists and spies. The Soviet Missile crisis is on the horizon….

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP1099267298.mp3
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