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Episode 115: Prosecuting Discretion – Transcript

by Marylee Williams

August 8, 2017

HOST INTRO: The word law has its roots in old English. It basically means to regulate and it basically has the same root meaning today. When we say law, we share this idea that we’re…

Ten Hours to Twenty Years

by Marylee Williams

August 8, 2017

It started out as a plan to steal some comic books, sell them and split the cash. That was before a busted lip, a heart attack, and federal prosecutors stepped in. Reporter Mary Lee Williams,…

Inside San Quentin – To Be Heard

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…

In-Studio: Playing Games

by Nancy Mullane

June 28, 2017

What does it take to win an NBA Championship? On Monday night, June 12th, Oakland’s Golden State Warriors, aka “Dub Nation” silenced the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the 2017 NBA Championship. Three days later, thousands…

Episode 109: Unequal Protection – Part 2: Transcript

by Sarah Marshall

May 23, 2017

HOST INTRO: Last time on Life of the Law we presented Unequal Protection – Part 1, the story of Warren McCleskey’s appeal to the US Supreme Court that his sentence of death had been prejudiced…

Episode 108: Unequal Protection: Part 1 – Transcript

by Sarah Marshall

May 3, 2017

HOST INTRO: America is a country plagued by racism. Culturally, socially, economically. But what about in the courts? 30 years ago, Warren McCleskey, a black man on Georgia’s death row, took proof to the US…

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…

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…

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…

Episode 102: Radio Silenced – Transcript

by Ian Coss

February 7, 2017

HOST INTRODUCTION: You’re listening to a podcast that you probably downloaded straight onto your phone. And what we do with our podcast — the interviews, conversations, reporting, production — owes a lot to a thing…