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Community Engagement: Why Building Communities is Vital to Criminal Justice Reform
Host Khalil A. Cumberbatch interviews William Evans, founder and President of Neighborhood Benches a non-profit organization designed to help young adults and leaders achieve positive changes in communities where capacity building, community service and restorative justice practices are needed....
Imagining Civilian Justice in a Transformative Police and Criminal Justice System
Host Jim Vrettos interviews Robert Gangi, Founder and Executive Director of the Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP)
Imagining a Decade of Fire - The True Story of the South Bronx
Host Jim Vrettos interviews Vivian Vasquez and Gretchen Hildebran, Directors and Producers of the film "Decade of Fire". The talk is about the fires that consumed the South Bronx area in the early 1970s.
Imagining a Department of Civilian Justice!
Host Jim Vrettos interviews Manuel Gomez, Private Investigator | Activist | Black Ops Investigators. They have a conversation about the reality of corruption in the police, correction and district attorney departments nationwide and the proposal of Mr. Gomez of creating a Department of Civilian...
State-Level Reforms: Where We Need to Focus
BSOTB welcomes Katie Schaffer, NY statewide organizer at JustLeadershipUSA, who discusses the recent unprecedented increased attention by many states to implement state-level reforms as they relate to the criminal justice system. Advocates, both directly impacted and not, from across the country are...
Stones Of Hope: The Fight For Our Leaders Of Tomorrow
Nearly 53,000 youth are held in facilities away from home as a result of juvenile or criminal justice involvement. Nearly 1 in 10 is held in an adult jail or prison. To discuss these issues – and others -- BSOTB welcomes Jim Saint Germain, founder and chair of Preparing Leaders of Tomorrow (PLOT), a...
Imagining the Radical World of Lenny Bruce
Host Jim Vrettos interviews Ronnie Marmo, Actor, Writer, Director, Producer, Instructor
Correctional Profiteering: The Money Trail of Mass Incarceration
The commercialization of our correctional institutions has created a system of exploitation and injustice. “Both Sides Of The Bars” host Khalil Cumberbatch and Bianca Tylek, who directs the Corrections Accountability Project at the Urban Justice Center, discuss the issue and potential solutions.
Imagining the Early Roots of One's Radical Imagination
Host Jim Vrettos interviews Jamie Bernstein, Writer, Narrator, Broadcaster and Filmmaker. Among other topics the conversation pays a homage to Jamie's father, the "West Side Story" composer Leonard Bernstein.
This Week on MNN
This Week on MNN we continue our celebration of Women’s History Month