This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by their encounter with jails and to chronicle the progress ground-up efforts have made in diversion, bail reform, recidivism, adoption of technology and other crucial aspects of the move toward decarceration at local levels.
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This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by their encounter with jails and to chronicle the progress ground-up efforts have made in diversion, bail reform, recidivism, adoption of technology and other crucial aspects of the move toward decarceration at local levels.
Migrants Risk Their Lives During Hunger Strikes Inside ICE Detention, Part 1
70 Million
26 minutes 8 seconds
1 year ago
Migrants Risk Their Lives During Hunger Strikes Inside ICE Detention, Part 1
When some detainees complained about the lack of basic safety, health and medical necessities inside some ICE detention centers, they said they faced punitive retribution—including solitary confinement. In this two-part episode, investigative reporter Jesse Alejandro Cottrell talks to detainees in custody and on the outside about why and how they organized hunger strikes–and the consequences that followed. Find an annotated transcript at our website here.
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70 Million
This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by their encounter with jails and to chronicle the progress ground-up efforts have made in diversion, bail reform, recidivism, adoption of technology and other crucial aspects of the move toward decarceration at local levels.
