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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....
Host Jim Vrettos interviews Robert Gangi, Founder and Executive Director of the Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP)
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.
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...
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...
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...
Host Jim Vrettos interviews Ronnie Marmo, Actor, Writer, Director, Producer, Instructor
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.
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.