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This episode aired originally in October 2015. Host Ronald Day, Associated VP of DRCPP, interviews Ashley Demyan, Research Associate at Vera Institute; and Mujahid Farid, Lead Organizer at Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP). The conversation focuses on the situation for those who have enter into...

Host Ronald F. Day, VP of programs at The Fortune Society, leads a discussion about the explosion in technical parole violations, the impact of these violations on individuals, the community, and the system, and ways to address this challenge. Guests are Tanya R. Pierce, co-founder and president of...

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Felipe Luciano, Afro-Puerto Rican American poet, activist, radio, television, print journalist.  They talk about Luciano's life and his involvement with the Young Lords.

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Alan Stolzer from Military Initiative in the studio and Stanley Howard Co-author of "Tortured By Blue:The Chicago Police Torture Story" via phone call from an Illinois jail.

More than 2.7 million children in the U.S. currently have an incarcerated parent, and 10 million children experienced this at some point in their lives. The incarceration of an individual affects people who are often referred to as “hidden victims” - people impacted but rarely considered when...

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.

A reflection and examination of the final phrase of the Star Spangled Banner.

Is the United States really the land of the free and home of the brave?

The American criminal justice system holds approximately 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 109 federal prisons, 1,772 juvenile correctional...

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