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Host Jim Vrettos interviews Nick Brana, Founder and Director Movement for a People's Party; and Russell Gray, Activist at Extinction Rebellion. They talk about the journey fighting for climate change.

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Alex Vitale, Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.  They talk about policing, its effects and the possibility of reducing it or even eliminate it.

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Founder and Director of The Shalom Center

According to the National Registry of Exonerations, between 1989 when the first DNA exoneration took place and 2017, there have been 2,161 documented exonerations in the United States. There were 139 exonerations in 2017 alone and of those, at least 96 people were exonerated as a group. How are...

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Nona Willis Aronowitz, writer and editor; coauthor of "Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism"

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Naomi Snider Co-Author of Why Does Patriarchy Persist? (with Carol Gilligan) and Research Fellow at New York University.

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...

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.