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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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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…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP8244083093.mp3
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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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Live Law Brooklyn – Truth or Dare

by Life of the Law

  • November 17, 2015

Truth or dare. When was the last time you played the game? We all have stories of playing the game in high school. Maybe it was a  Saturday night, and you sat around asking each other…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP6236043414.mp3
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Full Interview with Justin Helzer

by Nancy Mullane

  • April 16, 2013

Justin Helzer died Sunday night, April 14th. He committed suicide inside his cell on San Quentin’s Death Row (the cell in this photo). If you look closely you can see him sitting on his bunk,…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP7045484824.mp3
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