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Inside San Quentin – To Be Heard

by Shadeed Wallace-Stepter

  • July 25, 2017

It’s been more than 45 years since a thousand inmates at Attica Prison (Correctional Facility) in New York took control of the prison. In her 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning book, Blood in the Water: The…

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In Studio: Mother and Son and Impact of Corporal Punishment

by Nancy Mullane

  • April 19, 2017

What do you think about corporal punishment? Did you experience it as a kid? Do you do it today, to your kids, as an adult? All 50 states allow it by law. After we published…

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Mother and Son

by Life of the Law

  • April 5, 2017

Twenty-one years ago, at the age of 19, Greg Eskridge was sentenced to 65 years-to-life plus two life terms in prison. Greg’s mom, Patricia Eskridge, was in the courtroom that day to hear the judge…

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Episode 106: Mother and Son – Transcript

by Nancy Mullane

  • April 5, 2017

HOST INTRO: Prison is a walled off, secret world, where inmates and officers live a sort of altered reality. For the past 10 years I’ve been reporting on the people inside San Quentin State Prison…

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In Studio: Heroin Town

by Nancy Mullane

  • March 21, 2017

Want to know how heroin treatment centers in Canada, the Affordable Care Act, President Trump’s new budget, and Henrietta Lacks all fit into one conversation? Welcome to In-Studio from Life of the Law. Each month we present an…

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Episode 104: Heroin Town – Transcript

by Sam Fenn

  • March 8, 2017

HOST INTRO: Heroin is illegal in Canada. And just like in the United States many doctors and treatment centers treat heroin addiction by providing a legal alternative, such as methadone. But methadone treatment doesn’t always…

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Heroin Town

by Sam Fenn

  • March 8, 2017

Heroin is illegal in Canada. And just like in the United States many doctors and treatment centers treat heroin addiction by providing a legal alternative, such as methadone. But methadone treatment doesn’t always work. So…

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Radio Silenced

by Ian Coss

  • February 7, 2017

In April of 2014, federal agents raided the studios of 106.1 TOUCH FM in Boston, Massachusetts. They took turntables, microphones, transmitters, pretty much everything. The reason was simple: the radio station was operating without a…

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Shaken

by Medill Justice Project

  • December 20, 2016

Eighteen-year-old Tonia Miller was accused of shaking her baby to death. A jury in Michigan convicted the young mother of second-degree murder and sentenced her to 20-30 years in state prison. But did she do…

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Shaken – French Transcript

by Medill Justice Project

  • December 20, 2016

HOST INTRODUCTION Être parent peut réserver bien des surprises… Surtout quand il s’agit d’un nouveau né. Parfois, les bébés commencent à pleurer et on ignore pourquoi. Ils se mettent à éternuer, à tousser et évidemment,…

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