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American prisons house more than 1.5 million individuals, an increase of over 390% since 1978. This growth persisted even in the face of an overarching decline in crime rates since the 1990s and the longest terms of incarceration since we began to collect accurate data. Over 600,000 men and women...

We know that children's life chances are overwhelmingly dependent on the income and education of their parents. Over 65 years after the Supreme Court struck down school segregation in Brown v. Board, black children are as segregated from white students as they were in the mid-1970s.

Host Jim...

On this episode, host Andre Ward talks to Dyjuan Tantro, the government affairs officer at the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), about the restoration of Pell grants for incarcerated students.

Host Jim Vrettos receives Professor Carl Hart & Ira Glasser as guests to have a controversial conversation about the use of drugs and why it should not be penalized by the government.

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Michael Isaacson, Researcher of Fascism. The two have a conversation about the influence of fascism in America and how can the people resist and transform this tendency.

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Michael Hudson, Economic Historian who offers his view in regards to the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having in the US economy.

Parole reform has become an important issue within the criminal legal reform world, to talk to us about these issues host Andre Ward welcomes Vincent Schiraldi, Co-director of Columbia University's Justice Lab and a Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia School of Social Work.

This episode is dedicated to the Apache Indian Tribe who is fighting against Resolution Copper, a joint venture company and one of the largest metal and mining companies in the world, who wants to build the nations's largest copper mine in the Apache holy site of Oak Flat Arizona. The show features...

Today, “Both Sides of the Bars” will discuss the importance of the 2020 Census and what people can do to participate in it. The Fortune Society’s Andre Ward hosts guest Kathleen Daniel, field director of NYC Census 2020, an organizing initiative established to ensure a complete and accurate count of...