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Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Surely the media should help. This week, why mainstream media are so poor at covering poverty – and what one project is doing about it.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Rob DeLeon, Associate Vice President of Programs at The Fortune Society interviews Ann-Marie Louison, Chief Strategic Initiatives Officer at the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES); and Nancy Ginsburg, Director of Adolescent Intervention and Diversion Project at The...

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....

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...

In this episode, Mrs. C. Virginia Fields has a conversation with Justin Toro, LMSW, Program Manager, Adolescent Program, Montefiore Medical Center