Episodes

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…

Feature Episode 79

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…

Feature Episode 78

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…

Feature Episode 77

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…

Feature Episode 76

Juggalos

by Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle

February 9, 2016

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…

Feature Episode 75

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…

Feature Episode 74

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…

Feature Episode 73

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…

Feature Episode 72

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…

Feature Episode 71

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….

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Episodes

BONUS EPISODE: A Conversation on Eugenics and the Law

by Nancy Mullane

Sterilized

by Jess Engebretson

Revolution in a Cornfield – Part 1: A Fair Fight for a Fair Court

by Ashley Cleek

Harris County USA

by Jonathan Hirsch

Juggalos

by Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle

UnDACAmented

by Jonathan Hirsch

Overruled

by Ashley Cleek

A whole ‘nother world… Live @ San Quentin

by Nancy Mullane

Outside the Walls

by Troy Williams

Space Law 2.0

by Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle

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